Kernighan
Proper noun
Meaning
Kernighan (plural Kernighans)
A surname from Irish.
Anagrams
Examples
B. W. Kernighan, "A Guide to the Advanced Use of QED Text Editor", MM-70-1373-7 (July 1970), reprinted as "A Guide to Advanced Use of QED Text Editor", MHCC-003, Murray Hill Computing, Bell Laboratories (October, 1972).
B. W. Kernighan, "A Tutorial Introduction to the QED Text Editor under GE-TSS", MM-70-1373-6 (June 1970), reprinted as "Tutorial Introduction to QED Text Editor", MHCC-002, Murray Hill Computing, Bell Laboratories (October, 1972).
GNU AWK has been maintained solely by Arnold Robbins since 1994. citation Brian Kernighan 's nawk (New AWK) source was first released in 1993 unpublicized, and publicly since the late 1990s; many BSD systems use it to avoid GPL license.
At that time, SoftQuad took over the maintenance, although Brian Kernighan continued to improve troff on his own.
Kernighan and Ritchie say in the Introduction of The C Programming Language: "C, like any other language, has its blemishes.
Ossanna died before this task was completed, so Brian Kernighan took on the task of rewriting troff.