Rob Pike

Rob Pike at [[O'Reilly Open Source Convention|OSCON 2010]] 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.

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 character encoding. Provided by Wikipedia
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    The UNIX programming environment by Kernighan, Brian W.

    Published 1991
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