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He is most famous for his creation of the AWK programming language with Brian Kernighan and Peter J. Weinberger (the 'A' stands for "Aho"), and his co-authorship of (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.

1 Recommended reading

• Aho, Sethi, Ullman, Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools. Bell Laboratories, 1986. BooksEnthsiast.com
• Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan, The AWK Programming Language. Addison-Wesley, 1988. BooksEnthsiast.com

2 External links

• Dr. Aho's web page at Bell Laboratoties
• Dr. Aho's web page at Columbia University

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