C Programming Language | 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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[Aaronb]

C Programming Language 1st/2nd Edition by Kernighan and Richie is the best programming book I have ever read for learning a language. Masterfully written by the experts!

[InspiredFortunes]

I'm able to provide myself money and food on the table because of the technology this man has created.

[waverider]

If you are working on programming languages like Python, Perl, Java, Ruby remember those languages are written in c/c++, the databases, webservers are all written in c/c++ and above all the operating system on which your application runs is written in c/c++.
So practically without c/c++ virtually no software ever runs

[gregskupien]

Holy shit, the legend himself! I love this podcast.

[cossco]

I literally had a "HE WROTE THAT!?" moment. I gotta go finish up that book man.

[iamblaineful]

Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan are LEGENDS, thanks for the interview! They are both so

[CraigHollabaugh]

This was great! I'm old enough to have been on this journey, started on a PDP11 with a DECwriter in '78. I also know that Lex is a young man from his questions. Thanks from Colorado.

[mradminus]

Hi Lex, just want to say thank you so much for your work, amazing people you get to interview!

[patrickd]

Back in my first year, early 1990s, in Comp Science we were told to buy Kernighan & Ritchie C programming reference on day 1 and learn it. Amazing book. Memory cost a lot back then and mastery of arrays, pointers and memory allocation/deallocation ( malloc(), free() etc. was required. These days the development tools generally take care of this. The Heartbleed bug is an example of what happens when memory allocation is not handled correctly in C. OpenSSL is an example of software library that was written in C and the effect of not managing memory correctly in C syntax in a particular version. Heartbleed bug exploited how a version of OpenSSL was using a malloc() function when responding to a request ..basically memory leakage to a vindictive requestor. When I was doing exams in year 1 they would have marked you down heavily for that mistake. Great book and the impact these guys had on the world is amazing. Another great podcast from Lex

[garryiglesias]

A lexical analyzer interviewing B.Kernighan ? How ironic...

[carloc]

It’s great to hear Kernighan himself. I still have the old edition of his (and Ritchie’s) book. I think C is at the sweet spot between expressiveness and Assembly language: it sort of doesn’t hide the machine level, but still is high level.

[madezra]

This video deserves far more views than it has. Brian Kernighan is a true master!

[motbus]

Lex get the most incredible people on his podcast. you must listen

[thevortexATM]

you touch on just about everything on this channel dude, very awesome :)

[crispybatman]

Man, if only Dennis Ritchie were still around for this era of longform content. The impact that man had on modern computing is immense.

[DANISH]

That just emotional moment for me man. Listening to the one and only. Really wish his compatriots Mr. Legendary Ritchie, Mr Thompson were here for some you know one to one. These guy’s are literally father of modern world as we know. No words to describe. Millions of people to come millions to go millions to earn but only these guys will forever be etched into the history.🫡hats off to these guys for achieving this. It’s unbelievable how many people made living and are making it because of them.

[arghyadeepchatterjee]

Without saying anything else....I would just like to say a big THANK YOU to Brian Kernighan. You are the Legend.

[PmcAyeUrDa]

I think you should have these clips on their own channel. It helps differentiate them from the main channel.

[artukikemty]

A living legend this guy. Thanks for the interview!

[mirekheikkila]

i loved c! you could have inline assembly and also use c++ on top of it if you wanted or not!!