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Famous Nerds #21 (cont)

Brian
Kernighan

  
  • Bell Labs scientist (70's .. 90's)
  • Developer/co-developer of:
    • The name "Unix" (pun on "eunuchs")
    • The "Hello, World" program
    • The K&R book on the C language
    • Troff tools: eqn, pic, ditroff
    • Ratfor: a clean-up FORTRAN
    • Awk: early scripting language
  • Currently at Princeton University
The first "Hello, World" program (in B) 

main( ) {
  extrn a, b, c;
  putchar(a); putchar(b);
  putchar(c); putchar('!*n');
}
a 'hell';
b 'o, w';
c 'orld';