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   JohnMashey (johnmashey@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 14:14:20 JST JohnMashey

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   • Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

   @jwildeboer And as another Kernighan story, related to AWK, try short thread about a real telco application built with awk scripts, whos printout surprised Brian:
   https://mstdn.social/@JohnMashey/110103301307131222

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     • Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

     @jwildeboer
     Recall that BWK coined name Unix (and not as AT&T said, to be one where Multics was many, but as Multics without b*lls), so joking was early.
     Another joke: BWK was an associate editor for Prentice-Hall and once bugged me to write a book, saying you don't make money, but people think you know something. I suspect "the C Programming Language" has done $OK.
     Finally, here's BWK's oral history I got for #computerhistorymuseum https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102740170

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