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," ...

After attending Princeton as a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering in 1969, Brian Kernighan returned to the University in 2000 as a professor in the computer science ...

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If you thought that C is the kind of language that only 60-year-old white men know, think again. Yeah, it’s the dinosaur among today’s programming languages. But it’s still alive and kicking in more ...