#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming

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Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2020

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Brian Kernighan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. He co-authored the C Programming Language with Dennis Ritchie (creator of C) and has written a lot of books on programming, computers, and life including the Practice of Programming, the Go Programming Language, his latest UNIX: A History and a Memoir. He co-created AWK, the text processing language used by Linux folks like myself. He co-designed AMPL, an algebraic modeling language for large-scale optimization. Support this podcast by supporting our sponsors: – Eight Sleep: https://eightsleep.com/lex – Raycon: http://buyraycon.com/lex If you would like to get more information about this podcast

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Brian Kernigan, a professor of computer science at Princeton University.
0:07.0	He was a key figure in the computer science community in the early Unix days alongside Unix creators, Ken Thompson and Dennis Richey.
0:16.0	He co-authored the C programming language with Dennis Richey, the creator of C, and has written a lot of books on programming, computers, and life, including the practice of programming,
0:28.0	the Go programming language, and his latest Unix, a history, and a memoir.
0:34.0	He co-created AAC, the text processing language used by Linux folks like myself.
0:39.0	He co-designed Ample, an algebraic modeling language that I personally love, and have used a lot in my life for large scale optimization.
0:49.0	I think I can keep going for a long time with this creations and accomplishments, which is funny because given all that,
0:56.0	he's one of the most humble and kind people I've spoken to on this podcast.
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