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#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming
Lex Fridman Podcast
Should Everyone Know How to Program?
I think this is one of these questions of should everybody know how to program? And I think the answer is probably not. But I think everybody should at least understand sort of what it is so that if you say to somebody I'm a programmer, they have a notion of what that might be. So we have a kind of a toy machine that has a very small repertoire, it doesn't instructions, and they write trivial assembly language programs. Do they try and write a program themselves? Oh yeah, yeah, very small amount. Nobody very rarely, and does anybody in that course go on to become a real serious programmer,. but at least they've got a somewhat better idea of what all
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