Brian Kernighan's Programming Setup | 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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[optimisticfuture]

VI rocks. I wrote a windows version back in the 90’s as I was so frustrated with windows editors.

[pguti]

So lucky this guy named Lex to interview such a man!!!!

[kvms]

Nice VT-100 picture
Ricky from IBM (and DEC)

[IgnacioStegmayer]

I can't believe you're only talking about console editors. He talks about doing C/C++/Python on emacs? I've worked with all 3 languages these last years and I do use vi but that's only when I'm doing quick changes (mostly config) to deployed systems.
Do you really do the heavy coding in these editors instead of
I guess it just goes to show how little experience 3 years is in this field

[noslohcinkin]

I've had to use ed, hahahaaha, a good thing to have to do, once...

[michaelv]

Thumbs down for the click bait thumb. Come on lex.