Brian Wilson Kernighan (; born 1942 ) is a Canadian computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and contributed to the development of Unix.

Brian Kernighan is currently a Professor at the Computer Science Department of Princeton University, where he is also the Undergraduate Department Representative.

( In a display of authorial equity, the former is usually called the Kernighan – Lin algorithm, while the latter is styled Lin – Kernighan.

*" Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language " – By Brian Kernighan, AT & T Bell Labs, 2 April 1981

Before there was an official standard for C, many users and implementors relied on an informal specification contained in a book by Ritchie and Brian Kernighan ; that version is generally referred to as " K & R " C. In 1989 the American National Standards Institute published a standard for C ( generally called " ANSI C " or " C89 ").

Note that the label Lin – Kernighan is an often heard misnomer for 2-opt.

Lin – Kernighan is actually a more general method.

The best known method in this family is the Lin – Kernighan method ( mentioned above as a misnomer for 2-opt ).

The mutation is often enough to move the tour from the local minimum identified by Lin – Kernighan.

The following is an interesting quote from An Interview with Brian Kernighan when he was asked " What hooked you on programming?

Aho is also widely known for his co-authorship of the AWK programming language with Peter J. Weinberger and Brian Kernighan ( the ' A ' stands for " Aho ").

In addition, a simplified version of nroff is available in Ratfor source code form as an example in the book Software Tools by Brian Kernighan and P. J.

Sam is the text editor used by Bjarne Stroustrup and Brian Kernighan.

The K & R style, so named because it was used in Kernighan and Ritchie's book The C Programming Language, is commonly used in C. It is also used for C ++, C #, and others.

The C Programming Language ( sometimes referred to as K & R, after its authors ' initials ) is a well-known programming book written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the latter of whom originally designed and implemented the language, as well as co-designed the Unix operating system with which development of the language was closely intertwined.

m4 is a general purpose macro processor designed by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.

It is based on the original Ratfor by B. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger, with rewrites and enhancements by David Hanson and friends ( U. of Arizona ), Joe Sventek and Debbie Scherrer ( Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ).

The C documented is the language of Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie, as standardized in 1989.

* Brian Kernighan He coined the ubiquitous example program " hello, world ", and co-authored the first book on C ( programming language ); also known as a coiner of the expression " What You See Is All You Get ( WYSIAYG )".

The Elements of Programming Style, by Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger, is a study of programming style, advocating the notion that computer programs should be written not only to satisfy the compiler or personal programming " style ", but also for " readability " by humans, specifically software maintenance engineers, programmers and technical writers.

The example program from that book prints "" ( without capital letters or exclamation mark ), and was inherited from a 1974 Bell Laboratories internal memorandum by Brian Kernighan, Programming in C: A Tutorial, which contains the first known version:

For many years Lin – Kernighan – Johnson had identified optimal solutions for all TSPs where an optimal solution was known and had identified the best known solutions for all other TSPs on which the method had been tried.

He had planned another rewrite which was supposed to improve its usability but this work was taken over by Brian Kernighan.

It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

At General Power's seat in the balcony there is also a gold phone.

In addition to the authentication and acknowledgment procedures which precede and follow the sending of the go messages, again in special codes, each message also contains an `` internal authenticator '', another specific signal to convince the recipient that he is getting the real thing.

He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.

The test of form is fidelity to the experience, a gauge also accepted by the abstract expressionist painters.

Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

It is because there is not only darkness but also light that our situation becomes inexplicable.

but there is also compassion.

also he is a drunk, and has lost his job on that account.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.

he is questioning, also, every epistemology which stems from Hume's presupposition that experience is merely sense data in abstraction from causal efficacy, and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world, not directly perceived.

it is true that they are also extremely dull.

Now the detective must save his own skin by informing on the girl he loves, who is also the real murderer.

But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.

Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.