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MrBuddyCasino on July 12, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: QuickJS JavaScript Engine

Rob Pike and Ken Thompson: UNIX, Plan9, UTF-8, Golang.

jbarham on July 12, 2019 [–]

Rob Pike was born in 1956 so he didn't have anything to do with the original Unix. Maybe you're thinking of Dennis Ritchie?

Pike's account of how UTF-8 was invented is a fun read: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt

MrBuddyCasino on July 12, 2019 | [–]

Wikipedia says "was a member of the Unix team". Not completely sure what that implies.

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