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1. vitautJun 2016
   Just to add, the book "AMPL: A Modeling Language for Mathematical Programming" by Robert Fourer, David M. Gay, and Brian W. Kernighan (yes, the "K" in K&R) is also freely available online: http://ampl.com/resources/the-ampl-book/chapter-downloads/ . It is not only a reference for the AMPL modeling language, but also a great introduction to mathematical optimization.
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2. AlexeyBrinJul 2020
   Kernighan coauthored a book about AMPL.
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3. pjmorrisOct 2019
   Rummaging around the local mall bookstore in ~1982, I came upon 'Software Tools in Pascal', by Kernighan and Plaugher. I fell in love with the ideas, and the prose. It became the first of what is now a nearly complete collection of everything Kernighan has published (I don't have the AMPL book, or 'D for Digital'.) I can't calculate how much I know because of Dr. Kernighan, or how much my career's course has been altered by the levers he's given me, but it's a large number.

   This is now on my Amazon wish list (How many of you have private lists for 'things to remember and check out later?' Mine's called 'Random Followup Stuff')

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4. vram22May 2018
   Totally agree. Just found a few more from the Wikipedia page about Kernighan:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan

   The Elements of Programming Style (1974, 1978) with P. J. Plauger

   Software Tools (1976) with P. J. Plauger

   The C Programming Language (1978, 1988) with Dennis M. Ritchie

   Software Tools in Pascal (1981) with P. J. Plauger

   The Unix Programming Environment (1984) with Rob Pike

   The AWK Programming Language (1988) with Alfred Aho and Peter J. Weinberger

   The Practice of Programming (1999) with Rob Pike

   AMPL: A Modeling Language for Mathematical Programming, 2nd ed. (2003) with Robert Fourer and David Gay

   D is for Digital: What a well-informed person should know about computers and communications (2011)[12]

   The Go Programming Language(2015)[13]

   Understanding the Digital World: What You Need to Know about Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security (2017)

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5. temuzeNov 2015
   Just in case anyone here doesn't know who Brian Kernighan is:

   - He co-created AWK (he's the K) and AMPL

   - He literally wrote the book on C with Dennis Ritchie (the book with the big blue "C" on it)

   - He authored some of the first UNIX programs (cron, for example) when he was working at Bell Labs

   - He made "Hello World!" a trope and named UNIX

   He's also quite possibly the nicest person ever.

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