I've read about this scenario before but I didn't realize it was Ken Thompson who proposed it. Very cool. When I read the title I thought maybe Ken Thompson's

I've read about this scenario before but I didn't realize it was Ken Thompson who proposed it. Very cool. When I read the title I thought maybe Ken Thompson's compiler hack was Go (golang), which he co-created, and I was going to hear a bunch of Python or Node fans talk about why Go is not a threat :)