As an undergraduate, Rob Pike first read Brian Kernighan's book on the C programming language while home sick from classes at the University of Toronto. "I lay in bed and I read it cover to cover," ...

If you have ever looked at C as a programming language then you have probably seen or read, like I did, “The C Programming Language” by Brian Kernighan (Fig. 1) and Dennis Ritchie. It probably did ...

Narayanan Krishnaswami escaped from the cubicle police after 15 years in IT. He has been playing videogames since the days of the ZX Spectrum, when software came on tape casettes through the wonder ...

In the article, Dr. Kernighan states that "Mathematics" is highly complex and advanced, yet it is not frequently used in daily life; what is commonly used is "Simple Arithmetic" learned in elementary ...

Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into interesting programming languages. In the past we have spoken to Larry Wall, creator of the Perl programming language, Don Syme, senior ...

There was an interesting tidbit buried in a Computerphile video released last week (below the break), featuring professors [David Brailsford] and [Brian Kernighan] having a chat over coffee. Among ...