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For what achievement is Brian Kernighan best known?

  1. He was co-creator of the Unix operating system

  2. He was co-creator of AWK a programming language for text processing

  3. He was co-creator of the C programming language

  4. He was co-inventor of the concept of object-oriented programming
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Explanation

Brian Kernighan is best known as the co-creator of AWK (with Aho and Weinberger), a domain-specific programming language for text processing. He also co-authored 'The C Programming Language' with Dennis Ritchie but did not create C itself or Unix.

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