Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson
Kenneth Lane "Ken" Thompson, commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles, is an American pioneer of computer science. Having worked at Bell Labs for most of his career, Thompson designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. He also invented the B programming language, the direct predecessor to the C programming language, and was one of the creators and early developers of the Plan 9 operating systems. Since 2006, Thompson has worked at Google, where he co-invented the Go...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth4 February 1943
CountryUnited States of America
More precisely stated, the problem is to write a source program that, when compiled and executed, will produce as output an exact copy of its source.
Outside of operating systems in general tend to operate on programs and they have to somehow turn the notion of data and programs inside out.
SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!
The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.
When in doubt, use brute force.
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
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