Comments on: Leap In and Try Things: Interview with Brian Kernighan http://www.harmonyatwork.in/blog/2009/10/leap-in-and-try-things-brian-kernighan/ Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:29:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Dwapara Yuga http://www.harmonyatwork.in/blog/2009/10/leap-in-and-try-things-brian-kernighan/comment-page-1/#comment-241 Dwapara Yuga Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:00:28 +0000 http://www.harmonyatwork.in/blog/?p=198#comment-241 This week saw the launch of the first computer language in almost 10 years - Go. For the millions and millions of developers in IT, it's ironic that so much time should have passed since the last. The authors of the new language are not trendy teens from Russia or China but actually figures from the UNIX/C world of the 1960s and 70s, continuing the ethos of C in a multi core, multiprocessor, networked environment, this time sponsored by Google rather than the old Bell Labs. This week saw the launch of the first computer language in almost 10 years - Go. For the millions and millions of developers in IT, it’s ironic that so much time should have passed since the last. The authors of the new language are not trendy teens from Russia or China but actually figures from the UNIX/C world of the 1960s and 70s, continuing the ethos of C in a multi core, multiprocessor, networked environment, this time sponsored by Google rather than the old Bell Labs.

]]> By: Dwapara Yuga http://www.harmonyatwork.in/blog/2009/10/leap-in-and-try-things-brian-kernighan/comment-page-1/#comment-187 Dwapara Yuga Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:40:59 +0000 http://www.harmonyatwork.in/blog/?p=198#comment-187 This is an inspiring article. Kernighan's creative approach shines through in C, UNIX, GNU, Linux and Open Source Software. His inspiration can be found inside the code of the iMac, iPhone, Google, Amazon and much less well known wizardry in set top boxes and Wall Street trading systems as well as the Arpanet/Internet that lets Indian companies compete so well in North American and European markets. The author treasures his pre-ANSI copy of K&R, a book that's paid for itself 1000s of times, with something of the technical expression of Dwapara Yuga that one finds in Yogananda's spiritual classic the <em>Autobiography of a Yogi</em>. Unlike old world medical, law or dentistry qualifications, K&R transcends borders. K&R is to computer science what the Feynman lectures are to physics. This is an inspiring article. Kernighan’s creative approach shines through in C, UNIX, GNU, Linux and Open Source Software. His inspiration can be found inside the code of the iMac, iPhone, Google, Amazon and much less well known wizardry in set top boxes and Wall Street trading systems as well as the Arpanet/Internet that lets Indian companies compete so well in North American and European markets.

The author treasures his pre-ANSI copy of K&R, a book that’s paid for itself 1000s of times, with something of the technical expression of Dwapara Yuga that one finds in Yogananda’s spiritual classic the Autobiography of a Yogi. Unlike old world medical, law or dentistry qualifications, K&R transcends borders.

K&R is to computer science what the Feynman lectures are to physics.

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