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Ken Thompson was around 49 years old when Plan 9 was first released. Not sure about other people on the Plan 9 team. But presumably they were all highly skille
by TheAceOfHearts 5y ago
Ken Thompson was around 49 years old when Plan 9 was first released.
Not sure about other people on the Plan 9 team. But presumably they were all highly skilled and experienced engineers.
The key question is who were their disciples? How much of their knowledge has been passed down to the next generation?
- jleyank 5y agoEverybody who read their books or hacked Unix or Linux could be considered their “students”. Their code was published, eventually, and in any event they left tracks to follow for those recreating it. They created an ideal to strive for, along with the original MIT hackers and those who emulated them at other sites. Remember, it used to be way more collegial working on machines in the early days. Given Unix and C and the rest, they made their dent(s) in the universe and we’re all better for it.
- morelisp 5y agoMost Linux developers (both kernel and userland) seemed to learn very little from Plan 9, except in very limited areas. Other Unix developers, even less. I think it made very little "mindshare progress" until Go and even today it's a (loud, but) minority view in the Go community. I wonder if it ever troubled him he had vastly more influence with the "first draft" than the more refined system.