Languages don't enjoy long lives. Very few people still code with the legacies of the 1970s: ML, Pascal, Scheme, Smalltalk. (The C language is still widely used but in significantly updated versions.) Bucking that trend, the 1977 Unix utility Awk can boast of a loyal band of users and seems poised to continue far into the future. In this article, I’ll explain what makes Awk special and keeps it re
Photo by Simon Kadula on UnsplashAs the story of C’s birth goes hand in hand with the creation of Unix, the first C compiler can be traced back to the early 1970’s. I've detailed the history of C in my previous article Tracing the Lines: From the Telephone to Unix, which includes a brief summary of this history. Around 1971, Ken decided that Unix needed to be ported to a higher level language. Den
This article brought to you by LWN subscribersSubscribers to LWN.net made this article — and everything that surrounds it — possible. If you appreciate our content, please buy a subscription and make the next set of articles possible. It has only been a few months since the Emacs community went through an extended discussion on how to make the Emacs editor "popular again". As the community gears u
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