{"id":301847,"date":"2026-10-26T13:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/brian-kernighan-inside-bell-labs-the-best-programmer-why-c-won\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T13:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:00:17","slug":"brian-kernighan-inside-bell-labs-the-best-programmer-why-c-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/brian-kernighan-inside-bell-labs-the-best-programmer-why-c-won\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Kernighan: Inside Bell Labs, The Best Programmer, Why C Won"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sMllOlxVgD0?autoplay=1&#038;controls=1&#038;hl=en\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Brian Kernighan is a former Bell Labs member of technical staff, co-author of the original C book, and the one who popularized \u201cHello World.\u201d We talked about 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target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-peterman-pod\/id1777363835<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 Transcript: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.developing.dev\/p\/e072-brian-kernighan\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.developing.dev\/p\/e072-brian-kernighan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud835\udde7\ud835\uddf5\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddfb\ud835\uddf8 \ud835\ude06\ud835\uddfc\ud835\ude02 \ud835\ude01\ud835\uddfc \ud835\ude01\ud835\uddf5\ud835\uddf6\ud835\ude00 \ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddfd\ud835\uddf6\ud835\ude00\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddf1\ud835\uddf2&#8217;\ud835\ude00 \ud835\ude00\ud835\uddfd\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddfb\ud835\ude00\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddff \ud835\uddf3\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddff \ud835\ude00\ud835\ude02\ud835\uddfd\ud835\uddfd\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddff\ud835\ude01\ud835\uddf6\ud835\uddfb\ud835\uddf4 \ud835\uddfa\ud835\ude06 \ud835\ude04\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddff\ud835\uddf8:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 WorkOS: makes your app Enterprise Ready with easy to use APIs to add SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and more in just a few lines of code, check them out at <a href=\"https:\/\/workos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/workos.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud835\udde7\ud835\uddf6\ud835\uddfa\ud835\uddf2\ud835\ude00\ud835\ude01\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddfa\ud835\uddfd\ud835\ude00:<\/p>\n<p>00: 00 Intro<br \/>\n00: 42 What Bell Labs was and how he got hired<br \/>\n06: 34 Why so many inventions came from Bell Labs<br \/>\n14: 15 A day in the life at Bell Labs<br \/>\n27: 55 The most impressive people he worked with<br \/>\n33: 50 The AT&#038;T film explaining Unix<br \/>\n39: 46 Why C was so influential<br \/>\n43: 25 How awk was created<br \/>\n48: 40 What he misses most about Bell Labs<br \/>\n54: 10 Are LLMs bad for computer science education<br \/>\n01: 01: 46 His 1972 commit in the Go repo<br \/>\n01: 03: 43 Grace Emlen, the fake Bell Labs employee<br \/>\n01: 07: 39 Why he writes so many books<br \/>\n01: 19: 58 His favorite and least favorite languages<br \/>\n01: 24: 28 Advice for students and young people<br \/>\n01: 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target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.developing.dev\/<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 X\/Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ryanlpeterman\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/x.com\/ryanlpeterman<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 LinkedIn: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ryanlpeterman\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ryanlpeterman\/<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 Threads: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@<\/a>ryanlpeterman<br \/>\n\u2022 Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ryanlpeterman\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ryanlpeterman<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 TikTok: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@<\/a>ryanlpeterman<\/p>\n<p>\ud835\udde5\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddf3\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddff\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddfb\ud835\uddf0\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddf1 \ud835\uddf6\ud835\uddfb \ud835\ude01\ud835\uddf5\ud835\uddf6\ud835\ude00 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