A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan

Re:A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan by kragen on Thursday July 18, 2024 @06:18AM (#40994170)

i see, thanks!

yeah, i think it's well-known that lambda, map, filter, and reduce (the lispy bits of python) weren't in the earliest versions of python; they were contributed later on by a lisp fan

at a larger remove, of course, lisp was an inspiration for abc (via lcf and setl), shell (via algol), and awk (in a smaller way)

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Re:A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan by fuzztester on Thursday July 18, 2024 @01:02PM (#40997588)

I may be wrong, but I think apply() was there in an early version of python, maybe 1.5.

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Re:A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan by kragen on Thursday July 18, 2024 @08:05PM (#41000906)

1.5 was several years later

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Re:A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan by fuzztester on Thursday July 18, 2024 @08:40PM (#41001080)

but it was also several years ago, which is when I first started playing around with python, before starting to do production work with it a few years later.

so in one sense, i.e. compared to the present, 1.5 is an early version.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python

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Re:A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan by kragen on Friday July 19, 2024 @07:52PM (#41012703)

all true

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