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Freedom and Portability

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By Stephen Johnson Verified, Brian W. Kernighan
| Substack
The economic advantages of portability are very great. In many segments of the computer industry, the dominant cost is development and maintenance of software. Dennis Ritchie and Stephen Johnson 1978 … many insist that C is the programming language and that it will last forever. Byte Magazine 1983 The August 1983 issue of Byte Magazine devoted its cover, and a large part of its editorial content, to the C programming language.
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Letter to the Editor: Faculty on unionization at Labyrinth Books

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By Andrea Graham, Brian W. Kernighan, Jeff Dolven, Eldar Shafir
| The Daily Princetonian Verified
The following is a Letter to the Editor and reflects the authors’ views alone. For information on how to submit a piece to the Opinion section, click here. Labyrinth Books, among its many connections to Princeton, convenes a faculty advisory committee that meets once a semester to give advice on store policies in the changing context of the University’s curricular needs.
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EDA for Humanities Data

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By Brian W. Kernighan, Charlotte Turner, Sort -N, with a Song
| awk.dev
Exploratory Data Analysis for Humanities Data by Brian Kernighan Updated Sun Sep 10 13:58:41 EDT 2023 Introduction In the spring of 2023, I co-taught a course called Literature as Data with my friend and colleague Meredith Martin, professor of English at Princeton, and director of the Center for Digital Humanities. The course was very much an experiment, an attempt to combine literary study with computing. The 17 surviving students were largely sophomores.
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