Lex Fridman PodcastBrian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109
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- July 18, 2020
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- 1h 43m
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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:
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EPISODE LINKS: Brian's website: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/ Unix: A History and a Memoir (book): https://amzn.to/3fFJ1yM Understanding the Digital World (book): https://amzn.to/30ktBJI PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 4:24 - UNIX early days 22:09 - Unix philosophy 31:54 - Is programming art or science? 35:18 - AWK 42:03 - Programming setup 46:39 - History of programming languages 52:48 - C programming language 58:44 - Go language 1:01:57 - Learning new programming languages 1:04:57 - Javascript 1:08:16 - Variety of programming languages 1:10:30 - AMPL 1:18:01 - Graph theory 1:22:20 - AI in 1964 1:27:50 - Future of AI 1:29:47 - Moore's law 1:32:54 - Computers in our world 1:40:37 - Life CONNECT:
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EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Brian Kernighan, Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109 explores brian Kernighan on Unix, C, AWK, Go, and Computing’s Future Lex Fridman interviews Brian Kernighan about the origins of Unix at Bell Labs, its philosophy, and how constraints on early hardware shaped elegant, general designs like the Unix file model.
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