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small point, but I was not previously aware he pronounces it KerniHan (I was aware that in Ireland it would be)

Also note BK's preference for his Desert-Island Programming Language:

"He has said that if stranded on an island with only one programming language it would have to be C."

I trust that the air-gap would keep him safe. ^_^

>if stranded on an island with only one programming language it would have to be C

evil plotting raccoon meme: strand Kernighan on an island with just a LISP machine

He then writes a C compiler in Lisp. Checkmate.

Kernighan would probably first write the simplest possible C interpreter in Lisp, so he could then write the C compiler in C and get it bootstrapped.

Mainly how the air gap would keep him safe would be by preventing updates of ISO C and GCC.

I'm sure I read years ago that he pronounces it with a hard G. Does he pronounce it that way in the video or just the presenters?

I once had Brian as an "intern" on my team. It is definitely -not- a hard G.

Mind sharing the context of how you had him as an "intern"?!

I'm going to guess that this was at Google, sometimes they structured visiting faculty as interns (Geoff Hinton was Jeff Dean's intern).