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Kernighan and was
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 ").
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:
Shen Lin and Brian Kernighan first published their method in 1972, and it was the most reliable heuristic for solving travelling salesman problems for nearly two decades.
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.
The following is an interesting quote from An Interview with Brian Kernighan when he was asked " What hooked you on programming?
During the mid-1970s, Joseph Ossanna, working at Bell Laboratories, wrote the troff typesetting program to drive a Wang C / A / T phototypesetter owned by the Labs ; it was later enhanced by Brian Kernighan to support output to different equipment, such as laser printers and the like.
He had planned another rewrite which was supposed to improve its usability but this work was taken over by 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.
It was developed by Robert Fourer, David Gay and Brian Kernighan at Bell Laboratories.
The eqn program was created in 1974 by Brian Kernighan and Lorinda Cherry.

Kernighan and software
The term " software tools " came from the book of the same name by Brian Kernighan and P. J. Plauger.
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.

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

Kernighan and for
The ' K ' of K & R C and the ' K ' in AWK both stand for ' Kernighan '.
* An Interview with Brian Kernighan – By Mihai Budiu, for PC Report Romania, August 2000
* Video interview with Brian Kernighan for Princeton Startup TV ( 03. 20. 2012 )
Note that the label Lin – Kernighan is an often heard misnomer for 2-opt.
The best known method in this family is the Lin – Kernighan method ( mentioned above as a misnomer for 2-opt ).
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 ").
Ratfor provides the following kinds of flow-control statements, described by Kernighan and Plauger as " shamelessly stolen from the language C, developed for the UNIX operating system by D. M.

Kernighan and Prentice
The Unix Programming Environment, first published in 1984 by Prentice Hall, is a book written by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike, both of Bell Labs and considered an important and early document of the Unix operating system.

Kernighan and .
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.
Kernighan coined the term Unix in the 1970s.
Born in Toronto, Kernighan attended the University of Toronto between 1960 and 1964, earning his Bachelor's degree in Engineering Physics.
*" Leap In and Try Things "-Interview with Brian Kernighan – on " Harmony at Work Blog ", October 2009.
* Transcript of an interview with Brian Kernighan – Interview by Michael S. Mahoney
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Dennis M. Ritchie, Ken Thompson and Brian W. Kernighan wrote the QED manuals used at Bell Labs.
So, Brian Kernighan took on the task of rewriting troff.
At that time, SoftQuad took over the maintenance, although Brian Kernighan continued to improve troff on his own.
; Pairwise exchange, or Lin – Kernighan heuristics: The pairwise exchange or 2-opt technique involves iteratively removing two edges and replacing these with two different edges that reconnect the fragments created by edge removal into a new and shorter tour.
Lin – Kernighan is actually a more general method.
These methods ( sometimes called Lin – Kernighan – Johnson ) build on the Lin – Kernighan method, adding ideas from tabu search and evolutionary computing.
The basic Lin – Kernighan technique gives results that are guaranteed to be at least 3-opt.

was and software
* " Atlas " was the former name for ASP. NET AJAX, Microsoft software, a set of ASP. NET extensions providing Ajax functionality
It was designed to avoid some of the perceived problems with FORTRAN for backward compatibility with historic Buran ( spacecraft ) ALGOL software.
Although early Commodore advertisements attempted to cast the computer as an all-purpose business machine, the Amiga was most commercially successful as a home computer, with a wide range of games and creative software.
The 68000 has a 16-bit external data bus so must transfer 32 bits of data in two consecutive steps, a technique called multiplexing: all this is transparent to the software, which was 32-bit from the beginning.
Although the hardware is limited to four separate sound channels, software such as OctaMED uses software mixing to allow eight or more virtual channels, and it was possible for software to mix two hardware channels to achieve a single 14-bit resolution channel by playing with the volumes of the channels in such a way that one of the source channels contributes the most significant bits and the other the least.
A retargetable sound API called AHI was developed allowing these cards to be used transparently by the OS and software.
Whilst it may not have been as popular as the Spectrum, Commodore 64 or Amstrad CPC, it did sell in sufficient numbers to ensure that new software was being produced right up until the early 1990s.
This was quickly remedied by First Byte Computers who developed an interface and software which allowed a " switched " joystick to be used with the majority of software titles.
The most basic solution was a pure software system supplied on a ROM cartridge that drew a low resolution approximation of the mode 7 display in a graphics mode.
The first used the same graphics processor as the BBC Micro in mode 7 — the SAA5050 — but used software to ensure that it was fed with the correct graphics data.
A software ROM was still supplied, but this did no more than expand the hardware ROM so that it knew mode 7 now existed and was able to switch into it.
Tridgell was a major developer of the Samba software, analysing the Server Message Block protocol used for workgroup and network file sharing by Microsoft Windows products.
* The program was stored as a linked list of lines ; a or took O ( n ) ( linear ) time, and although Applesoft programs were not very long compared to today's software, on a 1 MHz 6502 this could be a significant bottleneck.
AIX was the first operating system to utilize journaling file systems, and IBM has continuously enhanced the software with features like processor, disk and network virtualization, dynamic hardware resource allocation ( including fractional processor units ), and reliability engineering ported from its mainframe designs.
One of the more popular desktop applications was the PageMaker desktop publishing software.
Although the Aster was a clone of the TRS-80 model I it was in fact more compatible with the TRS-80 model III, and ran all the software of these systems including games.
It also had a built in speaker which was compatible with such games software.
A third mode was entered with a special boot floppy which turned the Aster into a Videotex terminal with a 40x25 display and a Videotex character set, The software used the built in RS232 interface of the Aster to control a modem through which it could contact a Prestel service provider.
Another important demand was that the computers could be used in a network ( Aster developed special software and hardware for that ).
Later however the Government turned around and gave 50 % of the order to Philips and their P2000 homecomputer even though the P2000 did not meet all the technical demands, was made in Austria and did not have network hard nor software.

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