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    Irrelevant (a.k.a. utah2000); slides; ps file Pike's personal homepage Pike's Google homepage (Archived 2008-02-12 at the Wayback Machine) Rob Pike on GitHub...
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    common projects. It was designed at Google in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson, and publicly announced in November of 2009. It is syntactically...
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    the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system, designed and implemented by Rob Pike. It can use the Sam command language. The design of the interface was influenced...
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    to the 1984 book, The UNIX Programming Environment, Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike, both from Bell Labs, give a brief description of the Unix design and the...
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    " In 1992, Thompson developed the UTF-8 encoding scheme together with Rob Pike. UTF-8 has since become the dominant Unicode encoding form for the World...
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  • in 1984 by Prentice Hall, is a book written by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike, both of Bell Labs and considered an important and early document of the...
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    designed by Rob Pike and Bart Locanthi Jr. of Bell Labs and released in 1982. The Blit programmable bitmap graphics terminal was designed by Rob Pike and Bart...
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    expressions. It was originally designed in the early 1980s at Bell Labs by Rob Pike with the help of Ken Thompson and other Unix developers for the Blit windowing...
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    on C The Practice of Programming, with Rob Pike The Unix Programming Environment, a tutorial book, with Rob Pike "Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming...
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    graphical user interfaces developed at Bell Labs, mostly developed by Rob Pike, the concurrent window system, and the Blit (which predated X). 8+1⁄2 was...
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    proposal text was included in post-meeting distribution; see summary.) Rob Pike and Brian Kernighan (1983). "UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful"...
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    We There Yet? November 2009. Pike, Rob (25 June 2012). "Less is exponentially more". Retrieved 1 October 2016. Pike, Rob (2 March 2004). "[9fans] Re:...
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  • It was designed at Bell Labs by Sean Dorward, Phil Winterbottom, and Rob Pike. The Limbo compiler generates architecture-independent object code which...
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    he lived alone. First news of his death came from his former colleague, Rob Pike. He had been in frail health for several years following treatment for...
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  • Plan 9 is the direct descendant of this system. Vismon was the work of Rob Pike and Dave Presotto. It was based on some early experiments by Luca Cardelli...
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  • was designed by Rob Pike with coding by Bruce Ellis. Don P. Mitchell wrote the Markov chain code, initially demonstrating it to Pike and Ellis using the...
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  • September 2, 1992, on a placemat in a New Jersey diner with Rob Pike. In the following days, Pike and Thompson implemented it and updated Plan 9 to use it...
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  • Smalltalk implementation Squeak). It was developed by Luca Cardelli and Rob Pike at Bell Labs in the first half of the 1980s as a language for implementing...
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    "Well, the second letter was different" That story has been confirmed by Rob Pike on the Mastodon social network on December 17, 2023: Ted Kowalski, username...
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    on long word operands Rob Pike Ken Thompson Brian Kernighan "Robert Griesemer | Speakers | Channel 9". channel9.msdn.com. Rob Pike, Sean Dorward, Robert...
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    from ed—we got a manual page for the Toronto version of ed, which I think Rob Pike had something to do with. We took some of the regular expression extensions...
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    the BSD kernel in a weekend. In 1980, he also wrote cat -v, about which Rob Pike and Brian W. Kernighan wrote that it went against Unix philosophy. According...
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  • Moskovitz, Scott Aaronson, Bruce Schneier, Martha Minow, Andrew Revkin, Rob Pike, Jacob Tsimerman, Ramy Youssef, James Pennebaker and Ronald C. Arkin. The...
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  • by Peter Fraser. A University of Toronto team consisting of Tom Duff, Rob Pike, Hugh Redelmeier, and David Tilbrook implemented a version of QED that...
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  • Practice of Programming (ISBN 0-201-61586-X) by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike is a 1999 book about computer programming and software engineering, published...
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  • with . For example, *f* does not match .foo, but .f* does. According to Rob Pike, dotfiles were an unintended consequence of the implementation of the hierarchical...
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    terminal called Jerq led to the Blit terminal being renamed by designers Rob Pike and Bart Locanthi, Jr for the UNIX operating system. It was a programmable...
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  • build interpreters using Yacc. hoc was developed by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike as a glorified interactive calculator. Its basic functionality is to evaluate...
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    in New Jersey, and was always drawing as a child. French is married to Rob Pike, one of the creators of Plan 9 from Bell Labs, and of the Go programming...
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  • Unique Visitors Mark Archived 25 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine Rob Pike (2012). Go at Google. Presentation at the ACM conference on Systems, Programming...
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