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He's not a UNIX co-author at all, he joined Bell Labs in 1980.
by kasabali 11y ago
He's not a UNIX co-author at all, he joined Bell Labs in 1980.
- pjmlp 11y agoExcept he contributed to many of the userland tools and was part of the UNIX working group, which does make him a co-author, even if he didn't wrote the first kernel lines.
- kasabali 11y agoI must admit you have a strange definition of "co-author".
- pjmlp 11y agoI must admit you have a strange way to ignore Pike's contributions to UNIX initial GUI architecture, his book together with Kernighan about the UNIX programming environment and other contributions.
- kasabali 11y agoPlease don't twist my words. I'm just saying "co-author" have different meanings for you and me. edit: Really? Downvotes? Not cool.
- pjmlp 11y agoI didn't downvote you. As for co-author, the Cambridge dictionary says: "To write a book, article, report, etc. together with another person or other people:" Which given Pike's participation on what defined the initial UNIX graphics userland, makes him a co-author.
- kasabali 11y agoThat's where we disagree. You think Blit is one of things what makes UNIX UNIX while I don't. We have different interpretations of "co-author". I don't see any further benefit in discussing that.