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Linux Journal Interview With Brian Kernighan

Posted by timothy on from the real-life-wisdom dept.

pndiku writes "Linux Journal has an interesting interview with Brian Kernighan where he talks about AWK, AMPL and how he had nothing to do with the creation of C."

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  1. Re:It's official by Lazar+Dobrescu · · Score: 5, Informative
    It is well known that Kernigham had nothing to do with the creation of C. The K&R you are referring too are the authors of the BOOK, "The C Programming Language", that Kernigham wrote with Dennis Ritchie(which is the main inventor of C).

    So, we still have K&R, just as before. Only now, maybe some readers understand better that K&R is not the names of the C inventors, but the name of the people who wrote the book about how to use C ;)

  2. Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language by NearlyHeadless · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's an HTML version of Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language. There's a Postscript version on Kernighan's website