Alfred Aho
Dr.
Alfred V. Aho is a
computer scientist who works for
Bell Labs. He is most famous for his creation of the
AWK programming language with
Brian Kernighan and Peter Weinberger (the 'A' stands for "Aho"), and his co-authorship of
Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools (the "
Dragon book") with
Ravi Sethi and Jeffrey Ullman. Dr. Aho has received many prestigious awards, and has been awarded honorary doctorate degrees from the
University of Waterloo and the
University of Helsinki in
Finland.
Recommended Reading
- Aho, Sethi, Ullman, Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools. Bell Laboratories, 1986. ISBN 0201100886
- Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan, The AWK Programming Language. Addison-Wesley, 1988. ISBN 020107981X
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