Originally Posted by
ptempel
Oh cool! I heard that Aho was chair on the comp sci department at Columbia. I wonder if he's still there. He's the "a" in awk scripting language. It was named after Aho Weinberger and Kernighan.
Last I heard, Aho is still at Columbia.
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