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Rob Pike [1956-0] Canadian

Rank: 106
Author, Programmer

Robert Pike is a Canadian programmer and author. He is best known for his work at Bell Labs, where he was a member of the Unix team and was involved in the creation of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems, as well as the Limbo programming language.

Architecture

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We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better.		101
Web servers are written in C, and if they're not, they're written in Java or C++, which are C derivatives, or Python or Ruby, which are implemented in C.		102
When Steve Jobs died last week, there was a huge outcry, and that was very moving and justified.		103
Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX. The browsers are written in C. The UNIX kernel - that pretty much the entire Internet runs on - is written in C.		104
To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge.		105
You have to make a decision whether it's a new product or you integrate it with an existing product. It takes time to work these things out.		106
Dynamic typing is not necessarily good. You get static errors at run time, which you really should be able to catch at compile time.		107
Go is an attempt to combine the safety and performance of statically typed languages with the convenience and fun of dynamically typed interpretative languages.		108
The process of software development doesn't feel any better than it did a generation ago.		109
We don't believe we've solved the multicore-programming problem. But we think we've built an environment in which a certain class of problems can take advantage of the multicore architecture.	Architecture	110

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