History of Programming Languages | Brian Kernighan and Lex Fridman

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Brian Kernighan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. He co-authored the C Programming Language with Dennis Ritchie (creator of C) and has written a lot of books on programming, computers, and life including the Practice of Programming, the Go Programming Language, his latest UNIX: A History and a Memoir. He co-created AWK, the text processing language used by Linux folks like myself. He co-designed AMPL, an algebraic modeling language for large-scale optimization.

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[jonsunderland]

I love how he/ *we already know the history of programming languages but just want to here it told from an OG.

[OSalviano]

Awsome.
Can I suggest more talks about COBOL and IBM Mainframes? It's a really good topic IMHO.

[rustytrax]

How our pioneers talk about programming scares and intimidates beginners. But I'm convinced that anyone can learn assembly and then have an easier time writing in any language imaginable.

I'm beginning to think they tell you assembly is hard so that you will never get into the wonderful world of programming.

Assembly is good. It gives you a fundamental understanding of what is going on in a computer enabling you to write anything imaginable in the domain of computers.

[joseroshe]

Do you think there a possibility that one day since so many people are using coding languages that it will be a universal language?