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  • Nice interview with Brian Kernighan on Youtube/Computerphile

    From nn m@mahoney.neil@gmail.com to comp.lang.awk on Wed Aug 17 20:40:39 2022
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    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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  • From Ben Bacarisse@ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk to comp.lang.awk on Thu Aug 18 16:29:03 2022
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    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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  • From Bryan@bryanlepore@gmail.com to comp.lang.awk on Wed Mar 15 08:46:34 2023
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    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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