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posted by martyb on Tuesday May 14 2019, @02:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the looking-back-to-our-roots dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6q5dv_B-o

In the 1960s-1970s, Ken Thompson co-invented the UNIX operating system along with Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. He also worked on the language B, the operating system Plan 9, and the language Go. He and Ritchie won the Turing Award. He now works at Google. He's interviewed by Brian Kernighan of "K&R" fame.

This talk took place May 4, 2019. Videography courtesy of @thegurumeditation (Facebook), @thegurumeditate (Twitter)

[Ed note: We generally do not post stories that are strictly video-sourced, but given the stature of the participants in the programming world, I decided to make an exception. If videos are not interesting to you, please wait a bit and another story will be along before too long.]


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 14 2019, @03:25PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 14 2019, @03:25PM (#843442)

    [Ed note: We generally do not post stories that are strictly video-sourced, but given the stature of the participants in the programming world, I decided to make an exception. If videos are not interesting to you, please wait a bit and another story will be along before too long.]

    I approve. Now someone go watch the thing and spill out the gist here.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 14 2019, @04:09PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 14 2019, @04:09PM (#843456)

    First bit was Ken Thompson describing how he resisted offers from Bell Labs. Sounds like it was a near thing that they managed to hire him in the first place.

    Recommended!

    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 14 2019, @04:30PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 14 2019, @04:30PM (#843463)

      The story of unix pipes is even better! Starts ~30 minutes in.
      Ends with a frenzy of converting all the utilities they had to work with pipes--in a few evenings.

      Then grep -- which Ken wrote for himself until his boss asked for a way to "search for things". Ken cleaned up his code and delivered it to his boss the next day...

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 15 2019, @06:05PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 15 2019, @06:05PM (#843911)

        Kernighan talking about grep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfOnGZUZDk [youtube.com]

        That is a great YouTube series if you like this computer history stuff.