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Rob Pike

  * Unix user name: rob
  * Unix uid: ?
  * Commands written: jim, sam, acme, rio, ...
  * Languages created: squeak, newsqueak, Sawzall, Go.
  * Text editor of choice: Acme.
  * Worked at: Bell Labs, Google.

Books

  * The Practice of Programming with Brian Kernighan. (1999)
  * Unix Programming Environment also with Brian Kernighan. (1984)
  * Places of Power: The Aesthetics of Technology with John Sexton
    and foreword by Walter Cronkite. (2000)

Papers

  * Program Design in the UNIX Environment (aka cat -v Considered
    Harmful*") with Brian W. Kernighan.
  * The Blit: A Multiplexed Graphics Terminal.
  * A Concurrent Window System.
  * Window Systems Should Be Transparent.
  * Structural Regular Expressions.
  * A tutorial on the Sam editor language.
  * Face the Nation with David L. Presotto.
  * Squeak: a Language for Communicating with Mice with Luca Cardelli
    (Not to be confused with Alan Kay's 'squeak').
  * The Hideous Name with P.J. Weinberger.
  * Plan 9 From Bell Labs with Ken Thompson, Dave Presotto, Sean
    Dorward, Bob Flandrena, Howard Trickey, and Phil Winterbottom.
  * Hello World or Kalemera kosme or konnichihaShi Jie  - With Ken
    Thompson, about Unicode and the UTF-8 encoding.
  * (This list is still incomplete...)

Presentations and Articles

  * Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (aka utah2000 or utah2k)
    (Russian translation).
  * The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy - A presentation
    given at the UPTIME(1) celebrations in Copenhagen about the
    history, strengths and weaknesses of Unix.
  * Rio: Design of a Concurrent Window System - About the latest Plan
    9 window system.
  * Reflections on Window Systems: A Personal History of Software
    Engineering - A presentation given at DGPis40. ( mp4 and slides )

Other Articles and Writtings

  * Notes on Programming in C, Rob's programming style guide.
  * UTF-8 History - The tale of how Rob Pike and Ken Thompson
    invented UTF-8 and converted Plan 9 to use it everywhere in a few
    days.


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