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

Lex Fridman · podcast · Watch on YouTube

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

What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “Loved the episodes with Jim Keller [0] and Brian Kernighan [1] as well.”

    Kernighan interview on Lex Fridman's show

    Pandabob, 2020-12 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?”

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Topics: brian kernighan, unix, awk, c language, computing history

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