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by Intermernet 87 days ago
Rob Pike is responsible for many cool things, but Unix isn't one of them. Go is a wonderful hybrid (with its own faults) of the schools of Thompson and Wirth, with a huge amount of Pike.

If you'd said Plan 9 and UTF-8 I'd agree with you.
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jacquesm 87 days ago
Rob Pike definitely wrote large chunks of Unix while at Bell Labs. It's wrong to say he wrote all of it like the GP did but it is also wrong to diminish his contributions.

Unless you meant to imply that UNIX isn't cool.

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relaxing 87 days ago
I did not say he wrote all of it. “Write” can include co-authorship.

A lot of people are learning some history today, beautiful to see.

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jacquesm 87 days ago
I think that if you meant co-authorship you could have made that clearer. A 'contributed to' would have saved some unique ids.
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9rx 87 days ago
> I think that if you meant co-authorship you could have made that clearer.

What lead you to believe until now that Unix was written by just one person?

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