There was an intriguing tidbit buried in a Computerphile video clip introduced last 7 days (underneath the break), that includes professors [David Brailsford] and [Brian Kernighan] possessing a chat more than espresso. Among the other subject areas, they examine the background and existing state of numerous text processing resources. We learn that [Kernighan] has taken on a summer time project of updating the AWK text processing language to take care of UTF-8 text, an omission he admits is embarrassing in this day and age. He is also working on a second version of The AWK Programming Language ebook, which has not been current since currently being initial released in 1988.
[Brian Kernighan] is a legend in the planet of Unix and computing, performing at Bell Labs in the course of the 70s wherever Unix and C had been created. Among the quite a few achievements in his career, he is well-regarded as the co-writer with [Dennis Ritchie] of The C Programming Language, 1st revealed in 1972 and continue to remaining utilised decades later, AWK described above, and significant updates to troff. Far more not too long ago, he co-authored The Go Programming Language book in 2015.
If an up-to-date UTF-8-able AWK pursuits you, keep an eye on the AWK GitHub repository exactly where [Kernighan] anticipates an update, once he wraps his head about git a minimal much better. We’re delighted to see [Brian] so lively at 80 yrs old. If you want to find out more about those people early times at Bell Labs, we reviewed [kernighan]’s really interesting
