b. 1956, Canada · Bell Labs; Google
Also known as: Pike
Rob Pike was at Bell Labs from 1980 alongside Thompson, Ritchie, and Kernighan, and was a core designer of Plan 9 from Bell Labs, the Unix successor that influenced later systems. He co-authored The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming with Brian Kernighan.
With Ken Thompson he designed UTF-8 in 1992, now the dominant text encoding on Linux. At Google he co-created the Go programming language.
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Related people: Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan
Works cited in this book:
- The Unix Programming Environment (1984) (with Brian W. Kernighan)
- The Practice of Programming (1999) (with Brian W. Kernighan)
Discussed in:
- Chapter 2: A History of Unix and Linux · After Unix
