Rob Pike | |
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Born | 1956 (age 67–68) |
Nationality | Canadian |
Alma mater | |
Occupation | Software engineer |
Known for | Plan 9, UTF-8, Go |
Spouse | Renée French |
Website |
herpolhode |
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][ 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]
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 vismon program for displaying faces of email authors. [6]
Over the years, Pike has written many text editors; sam [7] and acme are the most well known.[ citation needed]
Pike started working at Google in 2002. [1] While there, he was also involved in the creation of the programming language Sawzall. [8]
Pike appeared on Late Night with David Letterman, as a technical assistant to the comedy duo Penn & Teller. [3][ non-primary source needed]
Pike is married to author and illustrator Renée French; the couple live both in the US and Australia. [9]
Rob Pike | |
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Born | 1956 (age 67–68) |
Nationality | Canadian |
Alma mater | |
Occupation | Software engineer |
Known for | Plan 9, UTF-8, Go |
Spouse | Renée French |
Website |
herpolhode |
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][ 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]
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 vismon program for displaying faces of email authors. [6]
Over the years, Pike has written many text editors; sam [7] and acme are the most well known.[ citation needed]
Pike started working at Google in 2002. [1] While there, he was also involved in the creation of the programming language Sawzall. [8]
Pike appeared on Late Night with David Letterman, as a technical assistant to the comedy duo Penn & Teller. [3][ non-primary source needed]
Pike is married to author and illustrator Renée French; the couple live both in the US and Australia. [9]