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Brian W. Kernighan

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January 01, 1942 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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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: 4.21 · 2,292 ratings · 182 reviews · 16 distinct works

	The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie 4.37 avg rating — 1,527 ratings — published 1978 — 26 editions	My rating:
	The Practice of Programming by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike 4.05 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Unix Programming Environment by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike 4.18 avg rating — 147 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Elements of Programming Style 3.85 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1974 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Software Tools by Brian W. Kernighan, P.J. Plauger 4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1976	My rating:
	Software Tools in Pascal 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1981	My rating:
	&Lt;&Gt; by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Data And Computer Communications: With Operating Systems Internals And Design Principles Ie With C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, William Stallings 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think by Andy Oram (Editor), Greg Wilson (Editor), Jon Bentley 3.55 avg rating — 296 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Awk Programming Language by Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan 3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1988	My rating:

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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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“I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.”
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