C Programming Language | Brian Kernighan and Lex Fridman
Full episode with Brian Kernighan (Jul 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9upVbGSBFo
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Brian Kernighan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. He co-authored the C Programming Language with Dennis Ritchie (creator of C) and has written a lot of books on programming, computers, and life including the Practice of Programming, the Go Programming Language, his latest UNIX: A History and a Memoir. He co-created AWK, the text processing language used by Linux folks like myself. He co-designed AMPL, an algebraic modeling language for large-scale optimization.
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@jerzyzbiaowiezy6249
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
On the beginning of my university studies ~25 years ago, this book was highly rexommended. I obtained it and … felt disappointed, since this book was not a tutorial.
I'm not saying the book is bad. It just was not what I needed.
@swaminathan_r1
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
C is THE programming language..
@mhalton
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
Only C is worthy of applause!
@crispybatman480
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
Man, if only Dennis Ritchie were still around for this era of longform content. The impact that man had on modern computing is immense.
@wizardofb9434
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
The best language I came across was C during the beginning of my career. The best book I read on programming language: The C programming language..
@nhzxboi
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
I sincerely love Brian as a comp sci major. I think Lex is full of bull. Just my opinion but Lex is a light weight BS artist. I'm sorry Brian got duped into this interview. Yuck! 3.3M suckers.
@Massenko
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
This man is a legend
@ApurbMishra
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
C language is mother of many languages like c++,java, javascript etc
@kdiggity1
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
I love C.
@artukikemty
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
A living legend this guy. Thanks for the interview!
@НурланМукамбаев
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
Lex is awesome. Inviting such great persons which became idols of modern age.
@burkebaby
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
I'm able to provide myself money and food on the table because of the technology this man has created.
@londomolari5715
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
His comments about examples shows the UNIX way. input | program > output.
@DANISH4114
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
That just emotional moment for me man. Listening to the one and only. Really wish his compatriots Mr. Legendary Ritchie ,Mr Thompson were here for some you know one to one. These guy’s are literally father of modern world as we know. No words to describe. Millions of people to come millions to go millions to earn but only these guys will forever be etched into the history.🫡hats off to these guys for achieving this. It’s unbelievable how many people made living and are making it because of them.
@SevenDeMagnus
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
Cool
@tulumataman3233
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
I HAVE INCURRED SO MUCH LOSSES TRADING ON MY OWN…I TRADE WELL ON DEMO BUT I THINK THE REAL MARKET IS MANIPULATED… CAN ANYONE HELP ME OUT OR AT LEAST TELL ME WHAT I'M DOING WRONG ?
@robertgwatts1858
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
I'm just a hobby programmer. But years back I settled on two languages for all my projects; C, which is nice and close to the metal for high performance, yet still very readable, and Common Lisp, where I do all my Unicorn and pumpkin programming. 😁
@siddhantjha6649
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
Look how small our population is who really appreciate this art…
@simpliside
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
Respect
@waverider1674
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
If you are working on programming languages like Python, Perl, Java, Ruby remember those languages are written in c/c++, the databases, webservers are all written in c/c++ and above all the operating system on which your application runs is written in c/c++.
So practically without c/c++ virtually no software ever runs
@abdelhaksaouli8802
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
Imagine how cool it is to have such man as your grandpa x')
@EdgeOfLight
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
why does the interviewer sound like he smoked three joints in a row?
@Aaronb2245
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
C Programming Language 1st/2nd Edition by Kernighan and Richie is the best programming book I have ever read for learning a language. Masterfully written by the experts!
@mpumi1024
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
What does it take to become a distinguished programmer, a principal engineer
@phxrazdan
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
I still have the book circa 1986/87
@PrivateSi
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
I HATE C as much as Unix/Linux and HTML+CSS+JS+SQL from a linguistic perspective…. sure, they get the job done, but via a mixture of terse obfuscation and bloated verbosity… It's certainly not the worst language, but it's nowhere near the ideal computer language for many reasons yet got forced on the world and stopped better competition due to ACADEMIC HEGEMONY spreading to industry. Committees of intellectuals then proceded to bloat and confuse C more and more, until C++ emerged.. C taught me, if you want a job done clearly, cleanly and efficiently don't get professors and students involved.
@paulkarch3318
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
Unix and c was/is a cult.
@thevortexATM
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
you touch on just about everything on this channel dude, very awesome 🙂
@humanbeing4556
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
Wow, The greatest living legend
@sebhacks
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
an absolute legend, I hope history remembers him.
@adamsalem-s
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
Java.
@arghyadeepchatterjee6100
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
Without saying anything else….I would just like to say a big THANK YOU to Brian Kernighan. You are the Legend.
@richardwagon6433
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
I see a class roster in his drawer. Imagine being one of those students. Your school picture is on Lex Fridman's podcast lol
@quantumac
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 pm
Retired now, and all my career as a software developer involved writing code in C and C++. I thank Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan for authoring such a well-written and precise text about C. My only gripe involved how they introduced the world to a formatting style where curly-braces are not lined up vertically. The first thing I did whenever I took over a piece of code written by someone who used that style was reformat it. IMHO, it's a hard style to read and it is very error prone. I refuse to use that style, no matter how popular it has become.
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