and implemented the Cprogramminglanguage, as well as co-designed the Unix operating system with which development of the language was closely intertwined
Kernighan authored many Unixprograms, including ditroff. He is coauthor of the AWK and AMPL programminglanguages. The "K" of K&R C and of AWK both stand
written in the B programminglanguage. It was the first piece of mainline Unix software to be developed in a high-level programminglanguage. Later, this
the Unix operating system. During the 1980s, C gradually gained popularity. It has become one of the most widely used programminglanguages, with C compilers