[kwlug-disc] possible presentation ideas

Khalid Baheyeldin kb at 2bits.com
Sat Dec 15 20:32:53 EST 2018


On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 8:28 PM Steve Izma <sizma at golden.net> wrote:
> There's a great video from a few years ago of Brian Kernighan
> giving a lecture on "successful language design", in which he
> spends a good chunk of time explaining why awk (even after about
> 40 years) is so good for day-to-day one-liners. But it's also an
> excellent discussion of the history of the usefulness of certain
> programming languages:
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg4U4r_AgJU>

It is worth noting the obvious ...

Kernighan is the K in AWK. The others are Aho and Weinberger.
He is also the K in K&R C with Ritchie ...




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