Rob Pike
Rob C. Pike | |
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Born | 1956 (age 62–63) |
Nationality | Canadian |
Alma mater | University of Toronto (BS) California Institute of Technology |
Occupation | Software engineer |
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Known for | Plan 9, UTF-8, Go |
Spouse(s) | Renée French |
Website | herpolhode.com/rob/ |
Robert "Rob" C. Pike (born 1956) is a Canadian programmer and author. He is best known for his work on the Go programming language and at Bell Labs, where he was a member of the Unix team and was involved in the creation of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems, as well as the Limbo programming language.
He also co-developed the Blit graphical terminal for Unix; before that he wrote the first window system for Unix in 1981. Pike is the sole inventor named in AT&T's US patent 4,555,775 or "backing store patent" that is part of the X graphic system protocol and one of the first software patents.[1]
Over the years Pike has written many text editors; sam[2] and acme are the most well known and are still in active use and development.
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 displaying faces of email authors.
Pike also appeared once on Late Night with David Letterman, as a technical assistant to the comedy duo Penn & Teller.[3]
Pike works for Google, where he is involved in the creation of the programming languages Go and Sawzall.[4]
Pike is married to author and illustrator Renée French; the couple live in both the US and Australia.[5]
See also
- The plumber – the interprocess communications mechanism used in Plan 9 and Inferno
Mark V. Shaney – an artificial Usenet poster designed by Pike
References
^ Rob (2006-06-11). "Command Center". Commandcenter.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2013-06-25..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ McIlroy, M. D. (1987). A Research Unix reader: annotated excerpts from the Programmer's Manual, 1971–1986 (PDF) (Technical report). CSTR. Bell Labs. 139.
^ "Penn and Teller Late Night With David Letterman". Retrieved 2016-12-13.
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Pike, Rob; Dorward, Sean; Griesemer, Robert; Quinlan, Sean (2005-01-01). "Interpreting the Data: Parallel Analysis with Sawzall". Scientific Programming. 13 (4): 227–298.
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"Renee French – A River Runs Through It – Artist Interview". WOW x WOW. 27 July 2015.
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Wikiquote has quotations related to: Rob Pike |
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy – Slides of his presentation at the commemoration of 1000000000 seconds of the Unix clock.
Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (a.k.a. utah2000) slides
- Pike's personal homepage
- Pike's Google homepage
Questions and Answers with Rob Pike by Robin "Roblimo" Miller (published in Slashdot in October 2004)
Concurrency/message passing Newsqueak on YouTube (Google Tech Talks May 9, 2007)
Structural Regular Expressions by Rob Pike slides
- The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike
Pike's appearance with Penn & Teller on Letterman on YouTube
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