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“I’m still teaching at Princeton,” 83-year-old Brian Kernighan recently told an audience at the InfoAge Science and History Museums in Wall, New Jersey. “I have not yet retired!”
A geek legend for his contributions to Unix at Bell Labs — and for co-authoring, in 1978, the definitive guide for the C programming language — Kernighan was invited to speak at the “Vintage Computer East” festival. And last month the videos were uploaded to YouTube, showing that his talk ended with a unique question-and-answer session that turned…
