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#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming

Lex Fridman Podcast

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What Is Powerful About Examples?

A good example will tell you how to do something and it will be representative of you might not want to do exactly that. And so a lot of the examples in the Cbook were picked for these very, very simple straightforward text processing problems. Some of them are pure syntax. Here's how you add three numbers. Well, come on. I could figure that out. Tell me how I would get those three numbers into the computer."

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