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Peter Weinberger Alive

Peter Weinberger
KindPerson
Born1942
StatusAlive
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

The W in AWK — built its implementation at Bell Labs and later led Unix development there.

Created AWK

The W in AWK — wrote much of its implementation; also built the 8½ window system, the face recognition work, and the math that powered Plan 9's graphics.\n\nThe 'weinberger' in /usr/bin; Google paid him to work on Go.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Weinberger
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_J._Weinberger