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Book 68 of 2022
Just finished Hello, World! Opinion columns from the Daily Princetonian by Brian Kernighan. Obviously I'm more familiar with his writings on the C programming language - his classic textbook on it was a constant companion during my undergraduate computer science days! And he's written other computing books. But this is a collection of his essays for the Princeton University student newspaper. And it's a delightfully varied mix of academia, computer science, and just life and stuff. Thoroughly recommended reading for anyone with an interest in any of these topics, or like me multiple of them. A very tiny number of the essays are perhaps too specific to Princeton student life to be very accessible for a wider audience. But generally they are a joy.