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>The original authors of yacc were Mike Lesk and Eric Schmidt - yes that Eric Schmidt.

Incorrect, they were authors of lex. yacc was authored by Stephen Johnson.

Surprising to me is all the authors are still around, even though the tools are over 50 years old!. Shows how young computer science field is.

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Who coauthored "The C Programming Language" anyway? Oh right, prof. Kernighan.

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/

The “k” in awk, of course. I’ve never met Kernighan or Weinberger personally. I did have a great conversation once with Al Aho and Larry Wall, largely about the history and mutual influence of programming languages upon one another.

Eric Schmidt had a career at Sun Microsystems, though he is better known for Google of course.

yeah, he was 20 when he co-authored lex. Had a good career at Sun and was brought into Google as adult supervision and that was 20 years ago! Kind of living example of the (almost) entire history of computing.

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