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Brian W. Kernighan

Author of The C Programming Language (2nd Edition)

Also known as: B.W. Kernighan, Brian Kernighan, Brian W Kernighan, Brian W.Kernighan, B.W. カーニハン, Brian Wilson Kernighan ... (see complete list), ブライアンカーニハン

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"The C Programming Language" and "The C Programming Language, Second Edition" should not be combined as one work. The languages described are significantly different: K&R C in one case, ANSI C in the other. Any variant of the title with "second", "2nd", "ANSI" or "ISO" in the title almost certainly refers to the second edition. K&R C is these days of only historical interest, while ANSI C is a very important language. If you have any book about C , Objective C, C# etc, please do not combine it with either edition of "The C Programming Language". Also Brian Kernighan should not be combined with the "author" Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.

Books by Brian W. Kernighan

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The C Programming Language (2nd Edition) 1362 copies, 12 reviews
The C Programming Language 525 copies, 5 reviews
The Practice of Programming 491 copies, 1 review
The UNIX Programming Environment 319 copies, 4 reviews
The Elements of Programming Style 127 copies
Software Tools 119 copies
Software Tools in Pascal 41 copies, 1 review
The C Programming Language 14 copies, 1 review
Le langage C 7 copies
Lenguaje de Programacion C, El - 2b0 Ed. (Spanish Edition) 5 copies
Język ANSI C 3 copies
C-ohjelmointi. Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie ; [kääntäjä:… 2 copies
Język C 1 copy
La Practica de La Programacion (Spanish Edition) 1 copy

Il linguaggio C. Principi di programmazione e manuale di riferimento 1 copy

Programmazione nella pratica 1 copy

Unix 1 copy

C: A Liguagem de Programação 1 copy

A Unix operációs rendszer 1 copy

A programozás magasiskolája 1 copy

De UNIX programmeeromgeving 1 copy

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Kernighan, Brian Wilson

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1942-01

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Princeton Unversity (Ph.D|Electrical Engineering)

University of Toronto (BSc|Engineering Physics)

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"The C Programming Language" and "The C Programming Language, Second Edition" should not be combined as one work. The languages described are significantly different: K&R C in one case, ANSI C in the other. Any variant of the title with "second", "2nd", "ANSI" or "ISO" in the title almost certainly refers to the second edition. K&R C is these days of only historical interest, while ANSI C is a very important language. If you have any book about C , Objective C, C# etc, please do not combine it with either edition of "The C Programming Language".
Also Brian Kernighan should not be combined with the "author" Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.

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