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It's an awk interview. "Awk creator" is relevant.
by overhead4075 2y ago
It's an awk interview. "Awk creator" is relevant.
- midiguy 2y agoI agree it was an incredibly awkward interview
- riiii 2y agoHe didn't say it was irrelevant.
- felideon 2y agoRight, the headline gave the appropriate context for the interview in a short sentence. Not everyone knows Kernighan created awk, as opposed to a respected person that happens to have opinions on awk.
- Gormo 2y agoAWK's name is actually an initialism of the last names of its three creators: Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan.
- usr1106 2y agoAho, 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.
- ryangs 2y agoIndeed, still in use. Also presumably the Aho of the Aho-Corasick string matching algorithm.
- funemployd 2y agoThere 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.
- usr1106 2y agoAh, 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.