Rob Pike Explained

Rob Pike
Nationality:Canadian
Known For:Plan 9, UTF-8, Go
Occupation:Software engineer
Spouse:Renée French
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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] 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 theBlit 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.

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]

Personal life

Pike is married to author and illustrator Renée French; the couple live both in the US and Australia.[10]

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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: "The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got" with Rob Pike . . . 15 January 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230922092535/https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1941206 . 22 Sep 2023 . Aug 15, 2012 . live.
  2. 10.1145/3488716. 0001-0782. 65. 5. 70–78. Cox. Russ. Griesemer. Robert. Pike. Rob. Taylor. Ian Lance. Thompson. Ken. The Go programming language and environment. Communications of the ACM. 2022-04-01. 248385361. free.
  3. Web site: Pike . Rob . Rob Pike . Rob Pike . 9p.io . . 15 January 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230129180547/https://9p.io/who/rob/index.html . 29 Jan 2023 . live.
  4. Web site: Dynamic generation and overlaying of graphic windows for multiple active program storage areas. April 1, 2020.
  5. Pike . Rob . The UNIX System : The Blit: A Multiplexed Graphics Terminal . AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal . October 1984 . 63 . 8 . 10.1002/j.1538-7305.1984.tb00056.x . 7 January 2024 . 15.
  6. Rob . Pike . 1990 . The Implementation of Newsqueak . Software—Practice & Experience . 20 . 7 . 649–659 . 10.1002/spe.4380200703 .
  7. Pike . Rob . Presotto . Dave Lee . Face the Nation . USENIX Summer Conference Proceedings . Portland, OR, USA . June 1985.
  8. M. D. . McIlroy . Doug McIlroy . 1987 . A Research Unix reader: annotated excerpts from the Programmer's Manual, 1971–1986 . CSTR . 139 . Bell Labs.
  9. Rob. Pike. Sean. Dorward. Robert. Griesemer. Sean. Quinlan. Scientific Programming. 13. 4. 227–298. 2005-01-01. Interpreting the Data: Parallel Analysis with Sawzall. 10.1155/2005/962135. free.
  10. Web site: 27 July 2015 . Renee French – A River Runs Through It – Artist Interview . WOW x WOW.

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