Quote of the day
The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.
Brian Kernighan
Born: January 1, 1942 (age 82)
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)