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Lex Fridman · 2020-07-18

Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109

Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109

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Sam text editor

Rob Pike

“editor I use mostly Sam”
“editor I use mostly Sam which is an editor that Rob Pike wrote long ago at Bell Labs”— guest
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Cygwin

Cygwin (inferred)

“which is a wonderful collection”
“cygwin for example which is a wonderful collection of take all your favorite tools from UNIX and Linux and just make them work perfectly on Windows”— guest

The guest's own work

BookBy the guest

UNIX: A History and a Memoir

Brian Kernighan

“has written a lot of books on programming computers and life including the practice of programming the goal programming language and his latest UNIX a history”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guestISBN verified

The Practice of Programming

Brian Kernighan

“has written a lot of books on programming computers and life including the practice of programming the goal programming language and his latest UNIX a history”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guestISBN verified

The Go Programming Language

Brian Kernighan

“has written a lot of books on programming computers and life including the practice of programming the goal programming language and his latest UNIX a history”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guestISBN verified

The C Programming Language

Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie

“you wrote a book C programming language and C is probably one of the most important languages in the history of programming languages”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guestISBN verified

AMPL: A Modeling Language for Mathematical Programming

Robert Fourer, David Gay, Brian Kernighan

“we wrote a couple of versions of a book on which is one of the greatest books ever written I love that book”— guest

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

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MacBook Air (13-inch)

Apple (inferred)

“I have a at this point a 13-inch MacBook Air which I used because it's kind of a reasonable balance of the various things I need”— guest
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iMac

Apple (inferred)

“I have a big iMac in my office that I use from time to time as well especially when I need a big screen”— guest
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Computers and Thought

Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman (inferred)

“there's a wonderful collection of papers called computers and thought that was published and about that era and people were very optimistic”— guest