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Rob Pike

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.

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Known for
Plan 9, UTF-8, Go
Occupation
Software engineer
Education
University of Toronto (BS) · California Institute of Technology
Born
1956 (age 69–70)
Spouse
Renée French

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Rob Pike

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Rob Pike

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related to External links · 13
Rob Pike → Archive, Archived, Bad, GitHub, Google, Irrelevant, Slides, Systems Software Research, The Good, The Unix Legacy, Ugly, Unix, Wayback Machine
Education · 2
Rob Pike → California Institute of Technology, University of Toronto (BS)
Born · 1
Rob Pike → 1956 (age 69–70)
Known for · 1
Rob Pike → Plan 9, UTF-8, Go
Occupation · 1
Rob Pike → Software engineer
Spouse · 1
Rob Pike → Renée French
Website · 1
Rob Pike → herpolhode.com/rob/

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Rob PikeEducationUniversity of Toronto (BS)1.00infobox
Rob PikeEducationCalifornia Institute of Technology1.00infobox
Rob PikeKnown forPlan 9, UTF-8, Go1.00infobox
Rob PikeOccupationSoftware engineer1.00infobox
Rob PikeSpouseRenée French1.00infobox
Rob PikeWebsiteherpolhode.com/rob/1.00infobox
the Newsqueak concurrent programming languageinstance ofPike also developed lesser systems0.80text
the vismon program for displaying faces of email authors.Over the yearsinstance ofPike also developed lesser systems0.80text
Pike has written many text editorsinstance ofPike also developed lesser systems0.80text
Rob Pikerelated to External linksThe Good0.60section
Rob Pikerelated to External linksBad0.60section

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