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#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming
Lex Fridman Podcast
What's Your Process Like Writing a Program?
I don't write big programs at this point. Many of the programs I write are experiments for either something I'm curious about or often for something that I want to talk about in a class. And so those necessarily tend to be relatively small. A lot of the kind of code I write these days tends to be for sort of exploratory data analysis where I've got some collection of data and I want to try and figure out what on earth is going on in it. Those programs tend to be very small. Sometimes you're not even programming, you're just using existing tools like counting things. Or sometimes you're writing ox scripts because two or three lines will tell you something about a piece
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