Rob Pike | |
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 Rob Pike at OSCON 2010 | |
| 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]
- ^ a b c d ""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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Pike, Rob. "Rob Pike". 9p.io. Alcatel-Lucent. Archived from the original on 29 Jan 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
- ^ "Dynamic generation and overlaying of graphic windows for multiple active program storage areas". Retrieved April 1, 2020.