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On “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: link to this video
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Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109
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- Presented by Brian Kernighan, Professor of Computer Science at Princeton
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History and cultureProgramming languagesHistory of computingCGo
Lex Fridman interviews computer science pioneer Brian Kernighan about the creation of Unix, the C programming language, AWK, and modern computing.
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: eightsleep.com/lex - Raycon: buyraycon.com/lex EPISODE LINKS: Brian's website: cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/ Unix: A History and a Memoir (book): amzn.to/3fFJ1yM Understanding the Digital World (book): amzn.to/30ktBJI PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5OtSR9U7Nv9Ly9ixzmerrU RSS: lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: - Introduction - UNIX early days - Unix philosophy - Is programming art or science? - AWK - Programming setup - History of programming languages - C programming language - Go language - Learning new programming languages - Javascript - Variety of programming languages - AMPL - Graph theory - AI in 1964 - Future of AI - Moore's law - Computers in our world - Life CONNECT: - Subscribe to this YouTube channel - Twitter: twitter.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: facebook.com/LexFridmanPage - Instagram: instagram.com/lexfridman - Medium: medium.com/@lexfridman - Support on Patreon: patreon.com/lexfridmanWhy it's here
1 person recommends thisWhat people say. Recommended as a fascinating interview with a computing pioneer covering the history of Unix and C.
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u/JavaSuckin r/C_Programming • Mentions
On “C Programming Language | Brian Kernighan and Lex Fridman”
> I’m going to have to listen to more of this guy.
The full episode is over 100 minutes...
u/rejectedlesbianin r/C_Programming • Mentions
On “Why does this compile and run with no errors?”
EXACLY the c languge spec has very poor dev exprince if you look at just the spec. Modern compilers make it better but it's still hard.
If c was designed today it would have a package manager and a better debugger. C originally wasn't ment just for preformance it was made to alow developers to be effective at the cost of a bit of preformance (compared to assembly)
Brain k. Explains it here link to this video
So while yes c is still very effective today it does have some things which it misses that make programers less effective.
not_knuthon Hacker News • Mentions
On “RethinkDB: why we failed (2017)”
Relevant piece of history on timesharing in relation to cloud computing by the legend that is Brian Kernighan: link to this video (05:40 - 10:50)
naveson Hacker News • Mentions
On “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: link to this video