1 year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan may be the closest thing we have to a https://thenewstack.io/brian-kernighan-remembers-the-origins-of-grep/. He coined the term “Unix” back in 1970 and is recognized for pioneering work at Bell Labs (where the operating system was born).

Kernighan admits Python’s the language if you’re only going to choose one for the rest of your life.

“The other thing I did was just a quick-and-dirty thing to make it possible to handle CSV inputs — comma-separated variables.

Kernighan quips that the new version “would deal with things like, ‘Well, we can now represent Unicode characters at least plausibly.'”