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If you read the acme[1] paper you will see Rob Pike explicitly acknowledges the influence of Oberon. This can be seen even more clearly in Acme's more direrect
by luriel 14y ago
If you read the acme[1] paper you will see Rob Pike explicitly acknowledges the influence of Oberon.
This can be seen even more clearly in Acme's more direrect predecessor: help[2]
[1]: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/acme/ http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/acme/
[2]: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/1st_edition/help/ http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/1st_edition/help/
- gruseom 14y agoThank you. I didn't know there was a direct influence. It's intriguing, because the two cultures share a similar design style: "aggressive use of a small number of abstractions" as Ken Thompson put it. I like that design style.