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For those that don't know who Brian Kernighan is: basically, he's one of the founders of the UNIX operating system with Bell Laboratories, and a significant early contributor to the C programming language: among other amazing accomplishments that literally all of us touch in one way shape or form today.

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> significant early contributor to the C programming language

source? http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?I=info.Brian_Kernighan says that

> Kernighan has said that he had no part in the design of the C language: "It's entirely Dennis Ritchie's work".

He did help write the first device-independent troff (The original by Joe Ossanna only worked with one specific type of computer-controlled typesetter.) and helped write the K&R C book, and the K in AWK is him, too.

Helping to write K&R C would make him a "significant early contributor to the C programming language" to many people here.

eh, I suppose that's fair.

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if many of the students only know him as Prof. Kernighan. CS majors are certainly nerds, but most of the stuff that made Brian famous happened well before they were born.

Quite a second act, if you think about it.

Don't forget plan9 and golang

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