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Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109

Lex Fridman · 766K views · 2020-07-18 · 1:43:10

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Overview

Lex Fridman interviews Brian Kernighan, co-author of The C Programming Language and co-creator of AWK and AMPL. They discuss Unix, C, Go and his memoir on the history of Unix.

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Mentioned as a favorite podcast episode and as a source of firsthand computing history, such as timesharing.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2020–2022

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Tech pioneers & interviewsHistory of computingC, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages
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What people said

Pandabob · 2020-12 · Recommendation

Loved the episodes with Jim Keller [0] and Brian Kernighan [1] as well. Lex really does a great show and has amazing guests. [0]: [LINK] [1]: [VIDEO]

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naves · 2022-08 · Reference

Two years ago, he used macOS on a 13" MacBook Air and an iMac, as per his conversation with Lex Fridman: [VIDEO]

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not_knuth · 2021-03 · Reference

Relevant piece of history on timesharing in relation to cloud computing by the legend that is Brian Kernighan: [VIDEO] (05:40 - 10:50)

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