#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming
July 18, 2020
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Episode 109 · July 18, 2020
#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming
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#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming
Summary
<p>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.</p>
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<p>OUTLINE:<br />
00:00 – Introduction<br />
04:24 – UNIX early days<br />
22:09 – Unix philosophy<br />
31:54 – Is programming art or science?<br />
35:18 – AWK<br />
42:03 – Programming setup<br />
46:39 – History of programming languages<br />
52:48 – C programming language<br />
58:44 – Go language<br />
1:01:57 – Learning new programming languages<br />
1:04:57 – Javascript<br />
1:08:16 – Variety of programming languages<br />
1:10:30 – AMPL<br />
1:18:01 – Graph theory<br />
1:22:20 – AI in 1964<br />
1:27:50 – Future of AI<br />
1:29:47 – Moore’s law<br />
1:32:54 – Computers in our world<br />
1:40:37 – Life</p>