Co-creator of core Unix utility, now 80, just needs to run a few more tests.

A Princeton professor, finding a little time for himself in the summer academic lull, emailed an old friend a couple months ago. Brian Kernighan said hello, asked how their US visit was going, and dropped off hundreds of lines of code that could add Unicode support for AWK, the text-parsing tool he helped create for Unix at Bell Labs in 1977.

  • Eddie Roosenmaallen
    6•2 years ago

    @jokeyrhyme
    It’s been 45 years and the nerd isn’t done tweaking and polishing his project.
    There are no words for the deph of respect and gratitude I feel for his commitment and/or compulsion.