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He also worked on the Blit graphical terminal for Unix; before that he wrote the first window system for Unix in 1981.

Over the years he has written many text editors; Sam and Acme are the most well known and are still in active use and development.

Pike, with Brian Kernighan , 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 . Pike also developed lesser systems such as the Vismon program for putting the faces of authors in internal email.

Pike also appeared once on '' The Late Show With David Letterman '', as a technical assistant to the comedy duo Penn And Teller .

As a joke Pike claimed to have won the 1980 Olympic Silver Medal In Archery ; however, Canada boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Pike, a Canadian Citizen , is married to Renée French , and currently works for Google .


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  • "''Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.''" - circa 1991 {Link without Title}

  • "''Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.''" - {Link without Title}

  • "''There's no such thing as a simple cache bug.''" {Link without Title}

  • "''Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.''" {Link without Title}

  • "''Sockets are the X windows of IO interfaces."'' {Link without Title}

  • "''Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.''" - on the X Window System {Link without Title}

  • "''Unix never says `please.'''" {Link without Title}

  • "''Those days are dead and gone and the eulogy was delivered by Perl.''" {Link without Title} - on one tool for one job

  • "''I started keeping a list of these annoyances but it got too long and depressing so I just learned to live with them again. We really are using a 1970s era operating system well past its sell-by date. We get a lot done, and we have fun, but let's face it, the fundamental design of Unix is older than many of the readers of Slashdot, while lots of different, great ideas about computing and networks have been developed in the last 30 years. Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.''" {Link without Title}



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  NAME Pike, Rob
  SHORT DESCRIPTION Software Engineer
  DATE OF BIRTH 1956