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Brian W. Kernighan

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in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

January 01, 1942

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Computers & Internet

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Brian Wilson Kernighan is a computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and contributed greatly to Unix and its school of thought.

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Average rating: 4.23 · 4,119 ratings · 262 reviews · 21 distinct works · Similar authors

	The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie 4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 2,819 ratings — published 1978 — 29 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Practice of Programming by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike 4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 416 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unix Programming Environment by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike 4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 273 ratings — published 1984 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Elements of Programming Style 4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1974 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Software Tools by Brian W. Kernighan, P.J. Plauger 4.44 of 5 stars 4.44 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1976	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Software Tools in Pascal 4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1981	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	D Is for Digital 4.58 of 5 stars 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Data And Computer Communications: With Operating Systems Internals And Design Principles Ie With C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, William Stallings 4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	&Lt;&Gt; by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie 4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Programovací jazyk C by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie 4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?”
― Brian W. Kernighan

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