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Brian W. Kernighan

Born

in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

January 01, 1942

Website

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/

Genre

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: 4.33 · 19,979 ratings · 1,118 reviews · 28 distinct works • Similar authors

	The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie 4.44 avg rating — 11,342 ratings — published 1978 — 98 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike 4.12 avg rating — 1,934 ratings — published 1999 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 4.24 avg rating — 1,314 ratings — published 1983 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	UNIX: A History and a Memoir 4.41 avg rating — 1,164 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 by Brian W. Kernighan, P.J. Plauger 4.19 avg rating — 288 ratings — published 1974 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Understanding the Digital World: What You Need to Know about Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security 4.23 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2017 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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: What a well-informed person should know about computers and communications 4.15 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 4.35 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 1976 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Millions, Billions, Zillions: Defending Yourself in a World of Too Many Numbers 3.77 avg rating — 108 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 by Brian W. Kernighan, P.J. Plauger (Contributor) 4.19 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1986 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 Kernighan

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“Don’t comment bad code—rewrite it.”
― Brian W. Kernighan, The Elements of Programming Style

tags: software-craftmanship, software-engineering

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“Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won’t do it well anyway.”
― Brian W. Kernighan

tags: inspirational-quotes

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