Rob Pike

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Rob Pike
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Rob Pike at OSCON 2010
Born1956 (age 68–69)
NationalityCanadian
Alma mater
Occupation Software engineer
Known for Plan 9, UTF-8, Go
Spouse Renée French
Website herpolhode.com/rob/

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]

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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]

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.[ citation needed ]

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] [ 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

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 ""The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got" with Rob Pike". InformIT . Pearson Education. Aug 15, 2012. Archived from the original on 22 Sep 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  2. ↑ Cox, Russ; Griesemer, Robert; Pike, Rob; Taylor, Ian Lance; Thompson, Ken (2022-04-01). "The Go programming language and environment". Communications of the ACM. 65 (5): 70–78. doi: 10.1145/3488716 . ISSN   0001-0782. S2CID   248385361.
  3. 1 2 Pike, Rob. "Rob Pike". 9p.io. Alcatel-Lucent. Archived from the original on 29 Jan 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  4. ↑ "Dynamic generation and overlaying of graphic windows for multiple active program storage areas" . Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  5. ↑ Pike, Rob (October 1984). "The UNIX System : The Blit: A Multiplexed Graphics Terminal" (PDF). AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal. 63 (8). 15. doi:10.1002/j.1538-7305.1984.tb00056.x . Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  6. ↑ Pike, Rob (1990). "The Implementation of Newsqueak" (PDF). Software: Practice and Experience. 20 (7): 649–659. doi:10.1002/spe.4380200703.
  7. ↑ Pike, Rob; Presotto, Dave Lee (June 1985). Face the Nation. USENIX Summer Conference Proceedings. Portland, OR, USA.
  8. ↑ McIlroy, M. D. (1987). A Research Unix reader: annotated excerpts from the Programmer's Manual, 1971–1986 (PDF) (Technical report). CSTR. Bell Labs. 139.
  9. ↑ Pike, Rob; Dorward, Sean; Griesemer, Robert; Quinlan, Sean (2005-01-01). "Interpreting the Data: Parallel Analysis with Sawzall". Scientific Programming. 13 (4): 227–298. doi: 10.1155/2005/962135 .
  10. ↑ "Renee French – A River Runs Through It – Artist Interview". WOW x WOW. 27 July 2015.

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