Alfred Aho Alive
Co-created AWK, co-wrote the Dragon Book, and built the pattern-matching machinery inside grep and yacc.
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Created AWK
Co-wrote the Dragon Book ('Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools'), created AWK's A, and built the theory — automata, parsing, algorithms — the whole field teaches from.\n\nTuring Award 2020 (with Ullman); the first Bell Labs CS theorist.