Brian W. Kernighan

May 5, 2024 | thechipletter.substack.com | Stephen Johnson |Brian W. Kernighan

The economic advantages of portability are very great. In many segments of the computer industry, the dominant cost is development and maintenance of software. Dennis Ritchie and Stephen Johnson 1978… many insist that C is the programming language and that it will last forever. Byte Magazine 1983The August 1983 issue of Byte Magazine devoted its cover, and a large part of its editorial content, to the C programming language.

Sep 7, 2023 | informit.com | Alfred V. Aho |Brian W. Kernighan |Peter Weinberger

Alfred V. Aho is Lawrence Gussman Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Columbia University, and former department chair. Well known for his work on algorithms, data structures, programming languages, compilers, and the foundations of computer science, he has received the ACM A. M. Turing Award and the IEEE John von Neumann Medal. Brian W. Kernighan was a member of the Computing Science Research Center at Bell Labs and is currently a professor in the Computer Science department at Princeton.