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Fun fact: Ken Thompson and Rob Pike of Unix, Plan 9, Go, and other fame had a heavy influence on the standard while working on Plan 9. To quote Wikipedia: > Th
by jjice 5y ago
Fun fact: Ken Thompson and Rob Pike of Unix, Plan 9, Go, and other fame had a heavy influence on the standard while working on Plan 9. To quote Wikipedia:
> Thompson's design was outlined on September 2, 1992, on a placemat in a New Jersey diner with Rob Pike.
If that isn't a classic story of an international standard's creation/impactful update, then I don't know what is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#FSS-UTF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#FSS-UTF
- SethMLarson 5y agoI knew that Ken Thompson had an influence but wasn't aware of Rob Pike, what a great fact! Thanks for sharing this :)
- ChrisSD 5y agoFor whatever it's worth Rob Pike seems to credit Ken Thompson for the invention, though they both worked together to make it the encoding used by Plan 9 and to advocate for its use more widely.