Rob Pike
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Robert Pike (born 1956) is a Canadian programmer and author. He is best known for his work on the Go programming language while working at Google[1][2] and the Plan 9 operating system while working at Bell Labs, where he was a member of the Unix team.[1]
Pike wrote the first window system for Unix in 1981.[3]Template:Non-primary source needed He is the sole inventor named in the US patent for overlapping windows on a computer display.[4]
With Brian Kernighan, he is the co-author of The Practice of Programming and The Unix Programming Environment.[1] With Ken Thompson, he is the co-creator of UTF-8 character encoding.[1]
Additional works
While at Bell Labs, Pike was also involved in the creation of the Blit graphical terminal for Unix,[5] the Inferno operating system, and the Limbo programming language.[1] Pike also developed lesser systems such as the Newsqueak concurrent programming language[6] and the vismon program for displaying faces of email authors.[7]
Over the years, Pike has written many text editors; sam[8] and acme are the most well known.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Pike started working at Google in 2002.[1] While there, he was also involved in the creation of the programming language Sawzall.[9]
Pike appeared on Late Night with David Letterman, as a technical assistant to the comedy duo Penn & Teller.[3]Template:Non-primary source needed
Personal life
Pike is married to author and illustrator Renée French; the couple live both in the US and Australia.[10]
See also
- Mark V. Shaney – an artificial Usenet poster designed by Pike
References
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External links
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- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy – Slides of his presentation at the commemoration of 1000000000 seconds of the Unix clock. (Archive on cat-v.org)
- Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (a.k.a. utah2000); slides; ps file
- Pike's personal homepage
- Pike's Google homepage (Template:Webarchive)
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