Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109
Why Hacker News recommends it
Mentioned as a favorite podcast episode and as a source of firsthand computing history, such as timesharing.
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.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2020 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Recommends Pandabob · 2020-12 · 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]: [this video]
Cites not_knuth · 2021-03 · on “RethinkDB: why we failed (2017)”
Relevant piece of history on timesharing in relation to cloud computing by the legend that is Brian Kernighan: [this video] (05:40 - 10:50)
Cites naves · 2022-08 · 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: [this video]