As an undergraduate, Rob Pike first read Brian Kernighan's book on the C programming language while home sick from classes at the University of Toronto. "I lay in bed and I read it cover to cover," ...

This time we spoke with Brian Kernighan — a figure who helped popularise C with his book, co-written with the creator Dennis Ritchie, The C Programming Language and contributed to the ...

Brian Kernighan co-authored The C Programming Language with Dennis Ritchie. Kernighan went on to many other programming projects like AWK with Al Aho and Peter Weinberger and EQN with Lorinda Cherry.