Rob Pike

Rob Pike (born 1956) is a software engineer and author. He is best known for his work at Bell Labs, where he was a member of the Unix team and was involved in the creation of the Plan 9 and Inferno operating systems.

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1956 - Software engineer - Author - Bell Labs - Unix - Plan 9 - Inferno

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He also worked on the Blit graphical terminal for Unix; before that he wrote the first window system for Unix in 1981.

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Blit - 1981

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Over the years he has written many text editors, Sam and Acme are the most well known and still in active use and development.

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Sam - Acme

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Pike, with Brian Kernighan, is the co-author of The Practice of Programming and The Unix Programming Environment. With Ken Thompson he is the co-creator of UTF-8. Pike also developed lesser systems such as the Vismon program for putting the faces of authors in internal email.

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Brian Kernighan - The Practice of Programming - The Unix Programming Environment - Ken Thompson - UTF-8 - Vismon

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Pike also appeared once on The Late Show with David Letterman, as a technical assistant to the comedy duo Penn and Teller.

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The Late Show with David Letterman - Penn and Teller

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It is often claimed that Pike won the 1980 Olympic silver medal in Archery; however, this is untrue.

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Pike, a Canadian citizen, currently works for Google.

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Canadian - Citizen - Google

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