Luisa Donato · @Luisa_Donato
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Naum · @naum
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Hard to whittle that down to 7, on the bubble:

- The C Programming Language
- The Crucified God
- The Upside Down Kingdom
- The Little Schemer
- Think and Grow Rich
- The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
- Strength to Love

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Luisa Donato · @Luisa_Donato
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Claude Shannon, such a genius.

(Source: from the book Unix a history and a memoir, by Brian Kernighan)


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Luisa Donato · @Luisa_Donato
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Tobias Becker · @tbr
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@koehntopp
Unnoticed by myself for three years. Hmm. Thanks for fixing this.
Kernighan, Brian W.: Unix: A History and a Memoir. Amazon, 2019. -- ISBN 978-1-69597-855-3
[cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/memoir.h]

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IT News · @itnewsbot
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Unix legend, who owes us nothing, keeps fixing foundational AWK code - Enlarge / Brian Kernighan speaking at a tribute to his Bell Labs cowork... - arstechnica.com/?p=1875462 &it #

#c #git #awk #unix #tech #github #biz #briankernighan

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Soh Kam Yung · @sohkamyung
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Cool! 🙂 Published on 17 August 2022.

"Computerphile

Welcoming back the legend that is Professor Brian Kernighan! Professor Brailsford invites Brian for coffee and a chat."

youtube.com/watch?v=GNyQxXw_oM

#computers #software #awk #briankernighan

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Soh Kam Yung · @sohkamyung
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Woohoo. The book by Brian Kernighan about UNIX has arrived, in time for some holiday reading. 😃

I flipped through the book and saw the photo of his Bell Labs badge and I had to laugh.

#computerhistory #computing #operatingsystems #unix #briankernighan

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