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Anyone know if Kernighan has written a lot of Go code himself, or is he onboard more for his technical writing skills?

(There's the Bell Labs connection of course)

I spoke to Kernighan about it a few days ago, and he seemed to be doing a good amount of go development.

He and Rob Pike have written a few books together, that's likely the main connection.

I follow the Go community fairly closely and hadn't heard of Kernighan in connection with Go, but he may also not be advertising his use of it.

kernighan also wrote the tutorial on the Limbo programming language:

he's obviously good at it, and the perspective of someone not involved with the creation of the language is a bonus.

He authored the first 4 commits in the Go repository ;)

Kernighan is one of the core authors of the language. So I'd say it's for more than just his technical writing skills.

No he isn't. Thompson gets slighted the same way by everyone thinking K&R _created_ C, when that was T&R.

They may all be greybeards but they are in fact distinct people!

You're mixing up the Bell Labs / Unix greybeards.

- Ken Thompson: Bell Labs, B, Unix, Plan 9, Go

- Dennis Ritchie: Bell Labs, C, Unix

- Rob Pike: Bell Labs, Unix contributor, Plan 9, Limbo, Go

- Brian W. Kernighan: Bell Labs, Unix contributor, AWK, AMPL

Books:

- "The C Programming Language" - Kernighan & Richie

- "The AWK Programming Language" - Kernighan & Aho

- "The Elements of Programming Style" - Kernighan & Plauger

- "The Unix Programming Environment" - Kernighan & Pike

- "The Practice of Programming" - Kernighan & Pike

- "The Go Programming Language" - Kernighan & Donovan