Do you think Kernighan and Ritchie ever explored each other's bodies?
May 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Do you think Kernighan and Ritchie ever explored each other's bodies?
Draft version 1 of Kernighan & Ritchie's C book.
Autographed (much later) by BWK.
Autographed (much later) by BWK.
June 14, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Draft version 1 of Kernighan & Ritchie's C book.
Autographed (much later) by BWK.
Autographed (much later) by BWK.
The Bible, of course.
December 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The Bible, of course.
Hello, world!
Fun fact: This term was coined in Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie's “C Programming Language” textbook, published in 1978.
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Fun fact: This term was coined in Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie's “C Programming Language” textbook, published in 1978.
go.aws/37TmOZq
November 19, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Hello, world!
Fun fact: This term was coined in Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie's “C Programming Language” textbook, published in 1978.
go.aws/37TmOZq
Fun fact: This term was coined in Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie's “C Programming Language” textbook, published in 1978.
go.aws/37TmOZq
Who invented the #Unix operating system?
a) Joe Ossanna.
b) Brian Kernighan.
c) Ken Thompson.
d) AT&T employees at Bell Labs.
e) All of the above.
a) Joe Ossanna.
b) Brian Kernighan.
c) Ken Thompson.
d) AT&T employees at Bell Labs.
e) All of the above.
February 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Who invented the #Unix operating system?
a) Joe Ossanna.
b) Brian Kernighan.
c) Ken Thompson.
d) AT&T employees at Bell Labs.
e) All of the above.
a) Joe Ossanna.
b) Brian Kernighan.
c) Ken Thompson.
d) AT&T employees at Bell Labs.
e) All of the above.
You hear that Mr. Kernighan? ... That is the
sound of inevitability... It is the sound
of improvement...
It's time, Mr. Kernighan....
sound of inevitability... It is the sound
of improvement...
It's time, Mr. Kernighan....
![A screenshot of a mail sent to the gcc-patches mailing list on August 2nd, 2025, with the subject:
[PATCH 0/4] implement defer statements as per ts 25755
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August 18, 2025 at 3:54 AM
You hear that Mr. Kernighan? ... That is the
sound of inevitability... It is the sound
of improvement...
It's time, Mr. Kernighan....
sound of inevitability... It is the sound
of improvement...
It's time, Mr. Kernighan....
@mcfrontalot.bsky.social
I got a free rhyme for ya
Kernighan and Ritchie
Make my brain itchy
Their statements are switchy
I got a free rhyme for ya
Kernighan and Ritchie
Make my brain itchy
Their statements are switchy
March 18, 2025 at 3:24 AM
@mcfrontalot.bsky.social
I got a free rhyme for ya
Kernighan and Ritchie
Make my brain itchy
Their statements are switchy
I got a free rhyme for ya
Kernighan and Ritchie
Make my brain itchy
Their statements are switchy
40+ years later, and AWK is still a powerhouse! 💻 Brian Kernighan, the co-creator of AWK, explains why it remains essential for text processing.
Original Video: AWK Is Still Very Useful | Brian Kernighan and Lex Fridman
Original Video: AWK Is Still Very Useful | Brian Kernighan and Lex Fridman
January 5, 2026 at 2:59 PM
40+ years later, and AWK is still a powerhouse! 💻 Brian Kernighan, the co-creator of AWK, explains why it remains essential for text processing.
Original Video: AWK Is Still Very Useful | Brian Kernighan and Lex Fridman
Original Video: AWK Is Still Very Useful | Brian Kernighan and Lex Fridman
C++: The Good Parts
November 27, 2024 at 9:01 AM
C++: The Good Parts
Does Ken Thompson count as an academic? Him and Brian Kernighan, both delightful
Right, enough of James Watson - who's a senior academic you've met who's been an utter delight?
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Does Ken Thompson count as an academic? Him and Brian Kernighan, both delightful
UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan
YouTube video by Vintage Computer Federation
youtu.be
August 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust?
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/08/30/044226/what-happened-when-unix-co-creator-brian-kernighan-tried-rust?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust?
"I'm still teaching at Princeton," 83-year-old Brian Kernighan recently told an audience at New Jersey's InfoAge Science and History Museums.
And last month the video was uploaded to YouTube, a new article points out, "showing that his talk ended with a unique question-and-answer session that tur...
developers.slashdot.org
August 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust?
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/08/30/044226/what-happened-when-unix-co-creator-brian-kernighan-tried-rust?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Simpatico aneddoto. Quando io e mia moglie siamo andati a convivere, ben prima di sposarci, abbiamo scoperto di avere entrambi il Kernighan&Ritchie 😁
Awesome Unix book collection for you. Do you remember reading any of these books?
January 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Simpatico aneddoto. Quando io e mia moglie siamo andati a convivere, ben prima di sposarci, abbiamo scoperto di avere entrambi il Kernighan&Ritchie 😁
Kernighan's Law
«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, 1974
«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, 1974
January 31, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Kernighan's Law
«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, 1974
«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, 1974
"E se somar dois inteiros fosse uma operação que pode quebrar seu programa todo?"
- Brian Kernighan, criando o C
- Brian Kernighan, criando o C
January 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"E se somar dois inteiros fosse uma operação que pode quebrar seu programa todo?"
- Brian Kernighan, criando o C
- Brian Kernighan, criando o C
Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS: thenewstack.io/unix-co-crea... via
@thenewstack.io
@thenewstack.io
Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS
Kernighan shared his thoughts on what he thinks of the world today — with its push away from C to more memory-safe programming languages, its hundreds of distributions of Linux — and with descendants ...
thenewstack.io
September 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS: thenewstack.io/unix-co-crea... via
@thenewstack.io
@thenewstack.io
![A reader from down under, courtesy of Phil McCrea: [picture of a wallaby reading The Unix Programming Environment by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wvceit3ycbpo6e5uzgfprx3c/bafkreihbsvdq2uohgk7nh5hh3ek7ytwo6mlsy5gq5t7kgc7ax7ncklfw5m)