Brian Wilson Kernighan (/ˈkɜːrnɪhæn/; born January 30, 1942) is a Canadian computer scientist. He worked at Bell Labs and contributed to the development
University computer science department and had been the Ph.D. advisor to BrianKernighan, one of Unix's developers at AT&T. Weiner was joined by Heinz Lycklama
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functionality. These concepts are collectively known as the "Unix philosophy". BrianKernighan and Rob Pike summarize this in The Unix Programming Environment as
control, and freely distribute their computing environment. In 1976, BrianKernighan (then of Bell Labs) and P. J. Plauger published Software Tools, the