Brian Kernighan Q&A 2/3 - Computerphile

This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.

[jurcenko]

Hope I look this good and my mind is this sharp when I'm over 70. You are a big inspiration Mr. proffesor.

[MrSushant]

" _There's something wrong between my brain and Haskell_ ", me *IRL* 😂😂😂

[AlexBuzz]

Imagine going to a CS class and Brian f***ing Kernighan is your instructor.

[kemosabe]

Paul Graham’s book ‘On Lisp’ is a nice intro into the world of functional programming and macros. Thank you for nice videos

[xf]

More Brian W Kernighan please! I am completely engrossed by everything he has to say, even what he reads for fun! Fun fact: I just learned Brian's birthday is 1st Jan (1946). The beginning of the Unix epoch is 1st Jan (1970). Coincidence?

[bsvenss]

02:14 Same here... I never got a grip of Haskell.

[tomburns]

Thanks for answering my questions! Interesting to hear your thoughts.

[nab-rkob]

I agree with the drag and drop model. When I am trying to program in a drag and drop environment it is a nightmare. Programs often need complex if-then-else or nested if's or multiple counters or nested counters or . . . .

[merseyviking]

I want to be like Brian when I grow up. <3

[runrin_]

A Distant Mirror is such an amazing book. Love it!!!

[tyrport]

I love the metaphor climbing a tree to get to the moon. Works for 5 meters. Also agree on everyone needing programming and I would add statistics. Too bad both are tough to learn.

[lawrencedoliveiro]

7:30 Back when reading and writing were first invented, no doubt there were similar discussions about the usefulness of that. Initially it was a specialist field in its own right (you learned to be qualified as a “scribe”). Then it became a universal skill. That was the first “information technology” -- it gave us the ability to keep track of large amounts of information, beyond the quantities we could keep in our heads. Computing is the second “information technology” -- it gives us the ability to *process* large amounts of information, beyond the capabilities built into our heads.

[paradonym]

That guy looks like the Matrix Architect... - so... on that channel he perfectly fits...

[BlueishBefore]

He might want to take a look at MakeCode, a graphical and text based programmer for microprocessors. It has a block based interface but can also be toggled between javascript and blocks.

[ChasSimpson]

"it's like climbing a tree trying to get to the moon". Love that analogy

[Ojisan]

Thanks for including the link to part 2! ☺️

[lawrencedoliveiro]

5:15 “No” is the correct answer. Actually the idea of “graphical” programming goes back decades -- an early example was ProGraph on the Macintosh, back in the 1990s, and they have never really been able to make progress beyond that.

Besides the objection that bwk points out, another major problem is that you can’t do version control on graphical program blocks. How do you diff two branches, and how do you merge them? We can do that with text code. Look at the massive popularity of Git nowadays, and the major difference that has made to our productivity. Nobody wants to abandon that.

[cinderwolf]

I work as a teacher using Scratch to introduce programming to kids, but I wish it was more extensible for advanced users.

[lawrencedoliveiro]

Has anybody asked him what version-control system(s) he uses, if any?

[DFsdfd]

i can't believe nobody asked him whether he use tabs or spaces. smh