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!
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 master. Don't know of any better technical writer and teacher in computing, in addition to his programming and research contributions.
Dennis Ritchie is certainly in the same class.
@@MorningNapalm definitely. The really terse and clear parts of K&R are most likely Ritchie.
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.
Incredible
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!
RIP
Please do a history with Ken Thompson.
Has been released one year ago.
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