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Brian Kernighan

A Canadian computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs, where he contributed to the development of Unix and the C programming language. He co-authored several classic computer science texts, including The Practice of Programming, with Rob Pike.

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Oct 14

The famous programmer Brian Kernighan said: 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?

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Sep 22

"Rubber duck debugging" originally traces back to The Practice of Programming (1999), co-authored by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike.

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Sep 8

In 1978, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie co-authored The C Programming Language (K&R), which became one of the most influential works in the history of programming.

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