Excellent interview. I was gifted my copy of "The C Programming Language"by a greybeard in the mid 1980's. Still writing C for personal fun projects in retirement.
The "military plane" that got canceled (mentioned at 1:13:18 in the video) was undoubtedly the Avro _Arrow._ Interesting that a consequence of that cancellation was a contact between the young Brian Kernighan and an engineer of significant talent; had it not been for the cancellation of the _Arrow_ project, Professor Kernighan's trajectory in life might have been significantly different. The Avro _Arrow_ project was canceled in February, 1959; Brian Kernighan would have turned 17 just a few weeks before. Assuming he didn't skip a grade, he would have entered "Grade 13" that fall. Unfortunately, I couldn't make out the name of that person when Professor Kernighan gives it (at the timestamp given above); it might have been "Davey Brough" or "Rowe."
I only truly understood how brilliant AWK was after reading Jon Bentley's Programming Pearls vol. 2, which includes some truly beautiful example of tiny programs, complete with tests, in a handful of lines at most.
Excellent interview. I was gifted my copy of "The C Programming Language"by a greybeard in the mid 1980's. Still writing C for personal fun projects in retirement.
Excellent interview of a person that (humbly) definitely changed the world!
The master. Don't know of any better technical writer and teacher in computing, in addition to his programming and research contributions.
I discovered Linux in 98 I was 16 years old and became fascinated it. By 17 I learned about its roots and K&R were my heroes. Amazing interview.
The "military plane" that got canceled (mentioned at 1:13:18 in the video) was undoubtedly the Avro _Arrow._
Interesting that a consequence of that cancellation was a contact between the young Brian Kernighan and an engineer of significant talent; had it not been for the cancellation of the _Arrow_ project, Professor Kernighan's trajectory in life might have been significantly different.
The Avro _Arrow_ project was canceled in February, 1959; Brian Kernighan would have turned 17 just a few weeks before. Assuming he didn't skip a grade, he would have entered "Grade 13" that fall.
Unfortunately, I couldn't make out the name of that person when Professor Kernighan gives it (at the timestamp given above); it might have been "Davey Brough" or "Rowe."
I only truly understood how brilliant AWK was after reading Jon Bentley's Programming Pearls vol. 2, which includes some truly beautiful example of tiny programs, complete with tests, in a handful of lines at most.
How does this legend not have an Order of Canada? If we could still bestow knighthoods, he would be the first in line.
I decided I would chug a Molson's everytime Brian said "aboot'.
Pil me!
Incredible
Please do a history with Ken Thompson.
What High School(s) did he go to?
What difference does it make?
Warning: He uses the Lord's name in vain around 12:10. :-(
No, he just said, "Jesus Christ."
Jesus was at 12:06. The devil makes an appearance around 31:40
He talks about computers, not about an imaginary god.
@@AvindraGoolcharan I thought that was going to take me to the part about Bjarne Stroustrup.
Who cares about some fake sky fairy