Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Brian Kernighan
Born: January 1, 1942 (age 83)
Bio: Brian Wilson Kernighan 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. He is also coauthor of the AWK and AMPL programming languages.
Known for:
- The C Programming Language (1975)
- The Practice of Programming (1999)
- The Unix Programming Environment (1984)
- The Go Programming Language (2015)
- The Elements of Programming Style (1974)