Taking a Linux Course
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The instructor was talking about awk, and how it was named from the authors' initials. But he had no idea who Brian Kernighan was, other than one of the three who created awk. Admittedly, it is a Linux course, but you'd think the instructor would know at least a little bit about the history of Unix. For Pete's sake, Brian named the dang thing, if nothing else. (Or do I just think that's important because I grew up down the road from Bell Labs? :laugh: )
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The instructor was talking about awk, and how it was named from the authors' initials. But he had no idea who Brian Kernighan was, other than one of the three who created awk. Admittedly, it is a Linux course, but you'd think the instructor would know at least a little bit about the history of Unix. For Pete's sake, Brian named the dang thing, if nothing else. (Or do I just think that's important because I grew up down the road from Bell Labs? :laugh: )
We won't sit down. We won't shut up. We won't go quietly away. YouTube, VidMe and My Mu[sic], Films and Windows Programs, etc. and FB
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The instructor was talking about awk, and how it was named from the authors' initials. But he had no idea who Brian Kernighan was, other than one of the three who created awk. Admittedly, it is a Linux course, but you'd think the instructor would know at least a little bit about the history of Unix. For Pete's sake, Brian named the dang thing, if nothing else. (Or do I just think that's important because I grew up down the road from Bell Labs? :laugh: )
We won't sit down. We won't shut up. We won't go quietly away. YouTube, VidMe and My Mu[sic], Films and Windows Programs, etc. and FB
always painful when people start telling stories and themselves forget the ending or worse, already lost half way through teacher: "blah blah story blah [pause] ...well anyway that doesn't matter,my point is ..." class thought: 'well sure! thanks for wasting my time, are we going to learn something today?.' (although less bad if someone else is paying for you to take the course)
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The instructor was talking about awk, and how it was named from the authors' initials. But he had no idea who Brian Kernighan was, other than one of the three who created awk. Admittedly, it is a Linux course, but you'd think the instructor would know at least a little bit about the history of Unix. For Pete's sake, Brian named the dang thing, if nothing else. (Or do I just think that's important because I grew up down the road from Bell Labs? :laugh: )
We won't sit down. We won't shut up. We won't go quietly away. YouTube, VidMe and My Mu[sic], Films and Windows Programs, etc. and FB
I agree with you completely. I think you have to know at least alittle bit of history so you can fully understand how things got to be the way they are now. And ignoring who Mr. Ritchie was is like calling you acomic book fan but ignore who Superman is, Dennis Ritchie was and still is on of the, if not THE mos influential oerson, programer, developer, architecht in the history of Computer Science.
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The instructor was talking about awk, and how it was named from the authors' initials. But he had no idea who Brian Kernighan was, other than one of the three who created awk. Admittedly, it is a Linux course, but you'd think the instructor would know at least a little bit about the history of Unix. For Pete's sake, Brian named the dang thing, if nothing else. (Or do I just think that's important because I grew up down the road from Bell Labs? :laugh: )
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What's important is that he knows the important things to teach anyone learning Linux and he probably just wanted to get onto them ASAP....how to get a Windows VM running on it so you can actually be productive. :laugh:
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The instructor was talking about awk, and how it was named from the authors' initials. But he had no idea who Brian Kernighan was, other than one of the three who created awk. Admittedly, it is a Linux course, but you'd think the instructor would know at least a little bit about the history of Unix. For Pete's sake, Brian named the dang thing, if nothing else. (Or do I just think that's important because I grew up down the road from Bell Labs? :laugh: )
We won't sit down. We won't shut up. We won't go quietly away. YouTube, VidMe and My Mu[sic], Films and Windows Programs, etc. and FB
a Linux course, is that a course that you compile yourself ? :rolleyes:
I'd rather be phishing!
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And you would be correct - a very useful tool AWK
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
And I was just using it myself - gawk anyway, both in Cygwin and in Gow ([Home · bmatzelle/gow Wiki · GitHub](https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki)) since I was on Windows. I was totaling up some fields in some CSV's.
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a Linux course, is that a course that you compile yourself ? :rolleyes:
I'd rather be phishing!
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And you would be correct - a very useful tool AWK
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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always painful when people start telling stories and themselves forget the ending or worse, already lost half way through teacher: "blah blah story blah [pause] ...well anyway that doesn't matter,my point is ..." class thought: 'well sure! thanks for wasting my time, are we going to learn something today?.' (although less bad if someone else is paying for you to take the course)
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(although less bad if someone else is paying for you to take the course)
Free. Well, free to me, anyway. I'm sure the company paid someone, somewhere, sometime. :laugh:
We won't sit down. We won't shut up. We won't go quietly away. YouTube, VidMe and My Mu[sic], Films and Windows Programs, etc. and FB
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The instructor was talking about awk, and how it was named from the authors' initials. But he had no idea who Brian Kernighan was, other than one of the three who created awk. Admittedly, it is a Linux course, but you'd think the instructor would know at least a little bit about the history of Unix. For Pete's sake, Brian named the dang thing, if nothing else. (Or do I just think that's important because I grew up down the road from Bell Labs? :laugh: )
We won't sit down. We won't shut up. We won't go quietly away. YouTube, VidMe and My Mu[sic], Films and Windows Programs, etc. and FB
My main rule says that any technology that is still associated with some person, is immature. (This doesn't include when the technology, or elements of it, is named after someone; naming doesn't count as associating the technology as such with the person as such.)
