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

    Lex Fridman

    1 HN recommender · recommended in 3 months, 2020–2022

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    1:43:10 · 766K views · Jul 18, 2020

    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

    1. @PandabobDec 2020· 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

      RecommendsView on HN
    2. @not_knuthMar 2021· 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)

      CitesView on HN
    3. @navesAug 2022· 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

      CitesView on HN