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Rob Pike and Ken Thompson: UNIX, Plan9, UTF-8, Golang.
by MrBuddyCasino 7y ago
Rob Pike and Ken Thompson: UNIX, Plan9, UTF-8, Golang.
- jbarham 7y agoRob Pike was born in 1956 so he didn't have anything to do with the original Unix. Maybe you're thinking of Dennis Ritchie? Pike's account of how UTF-8 was invented is a fun read: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt
- MrBuddyCasino 7y agoWikipedia says "was a member of the Unix team". Not completely sure what that implies.