Brian Kernighan Reflects on "The Practice of Programming"

from Book Overflow · host Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups

In this very special episode of Book Overflow, Dr. Brian Kernighan, the author of "The Practice of Programming" joins us to discuss his experience writing the book! Tune in as he talks about his experience at Bell Labs, what it was like co-authoring the book with Rob Pike, his thoughts on LLMs and the future of programming, and more! 00:00 - Intro 02:38 - Why write this book? 12:23 - Working at Bell Labs 16:29 - Life Learning Process 22:33 - What motivates you to write a book? 28:13 - AI and LLMs 35:48 - Layers of Abstraction 37:50 - What excites you about the future? 41:34 - Programmatic Thinking in Humanities 50:13 - Favorite Books 57:39 - Closing Thoughts

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