Rob Pike
Robert Pike (born 1956) is a Canadian programmer and author. He is best known for his work on the Go programming language while working at Google and the Plan 9 operating system while working at Bell Labs, where he was a member of the Unix team.
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Rob Pike at OSCON 2010 | |
| Born | 1956 (age 67–68) |
| Nationality | Canadian |
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| Occupation | Software engineer |
| Known for | Plan 9, UTF-8, Go |
| Spouse | Renée French |
| Website | herpolhode |
Pike wrote the first window system for Unix in 1981. He is the sole inventor named in the US patent for overlapping windows on a computer display.
With Brian Kernighan, he is the co-author of The Practice of Programming and The Unix Programming Environment. With Ken Thompson, he is the co-creator of UTF-8.
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