A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan

Re:A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan by Gormo on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @04:10PM (#40989873)

AWK's name is actually an initialism of the last names of its three creators: Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan.

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Re:A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan by usr1106 on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @04:56PM (#40990284)

Aho, one of the authors of the dragon books. When I studied CS 40 years ago it was given standard literature on compiler construction, a mandatory course.

No idea whether it is still used today. Well, no idea whether there is anything fundamentally new in compilers such an old book would not cover.

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Re:A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan by ryangs on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @05:19PM (#40990470)

Indeed, still in use. Also presumably the Aho of the Aho-Corasick string matching algorithm.

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Re:A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan by funemployd on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @10:03PM (#40991892)

There are plenty of advanced compiler techniques, but you can't understand them until you understand the fundamentals. There will always be a place for the purple dragon book.

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Re:A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan by usr1106 on Thursday July 18, 2024 @02:41AM (#40993053)

Ah, it's purple now. It was green when I studied, became red before I graduated. When I search for it now the thumbnails look unfamiliar.

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