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

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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.

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

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3 comments from Hacker News

@naves2022 · in “Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk”

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

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@not_knuth2021 · in “RethinkDB: why we failed (2017)”

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

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@Pandabob2020 · in “Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?”

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]: ▶ this video

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