Who are Kernighan and Ritchie? in C programming

Who are Kernighan and Ritchie?

Kernighan and Ritchie are Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie, authors of The C Programming Language. This book is known affectionately throughout the world as the “K&R Manual,” the “white book,” the “K&R Bible,” and other similar names. The book was originally published by Prentice-Hall in 1978. Dennis developed the C programming language for the UNIX operating system running on the DEC PDP-11 mainframe computer. He and Brian were working for AT&T Bell Laboratories in the early 1970s when both C and the K&R Manual were developed. C was modeled somewhat after the B programming language, written by Ken Thompson in 1970, and BCPL, written by Martin Richards in 1969.

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