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* Nice interview with Brian Kernighan on Youtube/Computerphilenn m
`* Re: Nice interview with Brian Kernighan on Youtube/ComputerphileBen Bacarisse
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 by: nn m - Thu, 18 Aug 2022 03:40 UTC

If you missed it, there is a current interview with Brian Kernighan on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNyQxXw_oMQ

Highlights:
He has added UTF-8 processing to his version of awk
(I don't know if it is available yet)
He is considering a new version of "The Awk Programming Language" book.
Lots of great history.

Also, great praise for current maintainers/supporters!

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Apparently, Awk still has an active fan base, 42K+ views and 2K+ upvotes, and many comments for just this video.

Apparently, there are other Kernighan interviews on this channel.

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 by: Ben Bacarisse - Thu, 18 Aug 2022 15:29 UTC

nn m <mahoney.neil@gmail.com> writes:

> If you missed it, there is a current interview with Brian Kernighan on YouTube
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNyQxXw_oMQ

Interesting.

--
Ben.

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 by: Bryan - Wed, 15 Mar 2023 15:46 UTC

I made a confusing comment on another thread about books. I would direct attention to 22:27 in the linked video, dated 16 August 2022, in which Brian Kernighan says :

@~22:27-22:44
"... So I think part of the trigger for trying to do Unicode in awk was conversations that I've had with Al and Peter and our editor at Addison-Wesley about whether a new version of the awk book would be appropriate. The awk book came out in 1988 so it's getting kind of long in the tooth as well, so I thought "What the heck", a summer project while I'm on vacation in England would be to work on a new version of the awk book --"

.... Kernighan mentions a number of reasons for such a project. I'm pretty sure by "the awk book - that came out in 1988" Kernighan means "The Awk Programming Language" by Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger (Addison-Wesley, 1988). The copy I have is ISBN 0-201-07981-X, reprinted October, 1988.

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_AWK_Programming_Language.html?id=53ueQgAACAAJ

Errata can be found with a Google search, but apparently not where I got them (a Bell Labs website).

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