Brian Kernighan - Summary of Achievements

Summary of Achievements

  • The first documented Hello, world program, in Kernighan's "A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B" (1972).
  • The AWK programming language, along with Al Aho and Peter J. Weinberger, and its book The AWK Programming Language
  • The AMPL programming language
  • The Elements of Programming Style, with P. J. Plauger
  • Ratfor
  • Software Tools, a book and set of tools for Ratfor, cocreated in part with P. J. Plauger
  • Software Tools in Pascal, a book and set of tools for Pascal, with P. J. Plauger
  • The Unix Programming Environment, a tutorial book along with Rob Pike
  • The C Programming Language along with C creator Dennis Ritchie, the first book on C
  • The pic typesetting language for troff
  • The eqn typesetting language for troff, along with Lorinda Cherry
  • The Practice of Programming, with Rob Pike
  • "Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language", a popular criticism of Niklaus Wirth's Pascal. Some parts of the criticism are obsolete due to ISO 7185 (Programming Languages - Pascal), the criticism was written before ISO 7185 was created. (AT&T Computing Science Technical Report #100)
  • ditroff, or "device independent troff", which allowed troff to be used with any device
  • The m4 macro processing language, with Dennis Ritchie

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