Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109
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Brian Kernighan, a key figure in early computing and co-author of C with Dennis Ritchie, recounts the origins of UNIX at Bell Labs following the collapse of the ambitious Multics project. Around 1969, after realizing that large-scale systems like Multics were too expensive and slow to deliver on the …