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Brian W. Kernighan, expositor par excellence, coined the name UNIX, popularized the tools philosophy,
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wrote the best tutorials, and became a prolific inventor of specialized ‘‘little languages’’: ratfor, eqn,
awk and pic. The Center’s typesetting guru since the untimely death of Joe Ossanna, Brian produced the
current ‘‘device-independent’’ version of troff and postprocessors for particular hardware.