Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109
Brian Kernighan shares his firsthand experiences from the early days of UNIX development at Bell Labs and the philosophy that shaped its design
Brian Kernighan
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Brian Kernighan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University and a legendary figure in computing history. He co-authored the seminal C Programming Language with Dennis Ritchie, co-created the AWK text processing language, and co-designed AMPL for optimization problems. His recent book UNIX: A History and a Memoir documents his experiences as a key contributor to the development of UNIX.