"C" Programming Language: Brian Kernighan - Computerphile

I was lucky enough to be able to work at Bell Labs in the late 80s, right down the hall from Kernighan and Ritchie. I was also learning C at the time and when I spoke to them, they said ANY time you have questions, come in ANY TIME. How amazing to be taught the language by the guys who wrote it! I still have that same book with both their autographs in it.

By learning and reading this C language book plus Richard Steven's Unix Tcp/ip books, i supported myself and feed my family for many years.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

très interessant, thank for exange

My K&R C Programming book, purchased August 1982 is the 11th printing.

I have that very book.

OMG I remember this book, I had it back in the late 80's early 90's - this was the Holy Grail for C developers - small snippets of code, straight to the point!

A great person, an admirable scientist to whom we programmers owe a lot.

C was my first programming language running on a PDP-11 using the vi editor.

I played around with BASIC on my Dad's Commodore-64 until I found a C compiler to run on it.

You read his book of C to start to see... ;-)

love K&R and "C", I also programmed in BCPL many cycles ago!

damn yankee ,you should buy a new copy.

The second edition is the first programming book i ever got

This is one of the BEST books I ever read; it changed my life. I decided to learn C because the book was so thin, and because Unix and C both made sense. The other languages at that time (Fortran, Cobol, RPG, etc.) seemed weird. I developed software for almost 40 years, and this book was the beginning. The books is clear, concise, and inspirational.

Thank you for this video! I have a copy of that original version of the book. The front cover has come detached, but I proudly keep it on my shelf. Clarity and concision. Thank you, Brian! (And I've been using your Understanding the Digital World in another class recently, so thank you for that, too!)

It's fun to watch this conversation. Even though sometimes it's hard to catch on, it takes me back to my college days were two of my smart friends will have this sort of conversation and I'll be sitting right next there pretending we are all on the same page.

ive learn the way of logic to use in kind of langauage using the and c++ concepts, its really useful guys

And it's one of the best programming books I've read.

ALX broght me here.

C the first modern language. So versatile, such a nice syntax.

Here from 2023... C is still used in Indian College Computer sci curriculum as the 1st language to learn...
The power of ( ; ) compels you.

no hear anything

Of course I like C, but Pascal and Delphi could compile an order of magnitued faster... Without clunky Header files.
I believe Java and C# are based as much or more upon them than C or C++.
I mean C++ should have eliminated the need for header files, but failed to do so.

"It's done better than that"
The only reason that book is not in my personal library is that it was ubiquitous at the various workplaces I have been. Not only is it an excellent reference for the language itself, it also contains great advice on designing a program.

Wonderful book and fascinating part of programming history. It is still a great educational resource today. A great shame that it is published by Pearson who provide low quality rip off books and damage access to education.

Today C is almost set equal to Assembler.

In the early 80s, I took a Tiny C compiler and used it to enhance itself into a full-featured Full C compiler. It was incredible how much I learned by doing that. As an experiment, I used DOS Basic to write a BASIC compiler. Kind of makes one wonder about the chicken and the egg.

The book he wrote changed the trajectory of my life.
From 0 to developer and i am actually making a course on my channel about...Forever grateful!
Brian Kernighan you will never read this but... you are the best!

Hes still sharp as a knife

Back in 1985 when Russian translation came out USSR. how hunted for it was ...

After 50 years, the C language is still viable and with some augmentations (see @C – augmented version of C programming language) it can also celebrate the centenary.

i was wondering why computerphile didn't do an interview with dennis ritchie. well, he died

I can guarantee half the views are ALX students 😁

the video is very helpful

Hi Brian....mis there a way I can speak to you..... I really need your help as far as C language is concerned

lets go alx

My books have come and gone, but my K&R is forever! I used the bit of sorting code, but a front end, back end, and ended up with a sort program that can sort 4 gig files. . .

I really enjoy listening to Brian and his coverage of the past and his and others contributions to what many people take for granted today.

Maybe it's just me but learning C first makes learning other programming languages a lot easier.

Hearing C compiler was built with C,
Wow!
Building a sharper tool with a sharp tool :)

The C Programming Language, even if you're not interested in writing C should be in your CS section of your personal library.

Papa of c language

the money its necesary to survive in the concrete jungle, newcomer of programmers gonna enter in this world and seek what language its more profitable, but always always its for fun, and the fun must be shared, thanks for all the people who contribute to this world

In 10 years time a top 10 of programming languages will probably have a different set of trendy hipster languages, even C++ may have fallen off, but C will still be in there.

Just from his awesome attitude man can immediately tell that he is from Canada

We love you Brian!

Is this the guy guilty of making like the whole industry have bit arithmetic operators have lower precedence than comparisons, or was it the other one?

Like so many others, I learned to program from that book! I just happened to pick it up from the store and never heard of it before…

Will Brian Kernighan ever release a third edition of his book "The C Programming Language"? C got at least new features in C99, C11, C17/18 and soon in C2x.