January 26, 2008
Stare
Connect 1,2 and 3 to a popular unix tool and tell us who is missing.
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Cracked by: madhur , Dibyo , bs , duriel , piezocake , Tathagata Chatterjee , BiGFooT , shashank and udupendra.
Answer:
AWK connects.
1.Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger(who is missing), 2. Brian Kernighan are the A,W and K respectively.
Auk, the bird is the tool’s mascot and they insist that Awk be pronounced as Auk rather than awk as in gawk.
GAWK is the GNU version of the same tool, which was the hint and some of you got that too :)
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January 26th, 2008 at 12:31 pm, GMT -0800 ( 1201379498 )
Connect : AWK which is a general purpose programming language that is designed for processing text-based data, either in files or data streams. The name AWK is derived from the family names of its authors — Alfred V. Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan
AWK is mentioned in the Single UNIX Specification as one of the mandatory utilities of a Unix operating system.
1. Alfred V. Aho
2. Brian Kernighan
3. Bird Auk which acts an emblem of the language such as on The AWK Programming Language book cover
Peter Weinberger is the person missing
January 26th, 2008 at 2:43 pm, GMT -0800 ( 1201387416 )
The connection is AWK, or auk.
1. Alfred Aho
2. Brian Kernighan
3. auk
Missing: Peter Weinberger
January 26th, 2008 at 3:08 pm, GMT -0800 ( 1201388916 )
Weinberger is missing from the awk trinity of 1)Aho and 2) Kernighan. 3) goes awk-awk-awk
January 26th, 2008 at 6:21 pm, GMT -0800 ( 1201400512 )
1. Alfred V. Aho
2. Brian Kernighan
3. Parakeet Auklets (a type of auk, a bird)
The Missing Person is Peter Weinberger.
These 3 people together made AWK, the programming language for text processing.
The clue, Stare, refers to the gawk (GNU awk) tool.
January 26th, 2008 at 9:22 pm, GMT -0800 ( 1201411344 )
Awk; Weinberger.
January 27th, 2008 at 12:11 am, GMT -0800 ( 1201421507 )
1) Al Aho
2) Brian Kernigham
3) The birds “Auk”
The connect is : Awk ( programming language)
The person missing is : Peter Weinberger.( The “K” of AWK)
Regards,
Tathagata Chatterjee
January 27th, 2008 at 12:50 am, GMT -0800 ( 1201423843 )
AWK - Named after Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger(missing form the pic list), and Brian Kernighan.
The cover of O`Reilly`s “Effective Awk Programming” shows an auk (species of bird) as in pic 3.
Title Clue : G(nu)AWK
January 27th, 2008 at 2:46 am, GMT -0800 ( 1201430813 )
1. Alfred Aho
2. Brian Kernighan
3. Auk
Connect : AWK
Missing person : Peter J. Weinberger
January 27th, 2008 at 9:15 am, GMT -0800 ( 1201454134 )
AWK - W (Peter Weinerger is missing) - A, K, and the auks are seen.