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A new oral history interview with Ken Thompson
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computerhistory.org
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oldnetguy
1 day ago
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Uhhrrr
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Hey, they cut him off before he could tell what they did after calculating a Hamiltonian as a Go constant!
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NooneAtAll3
1 day ago
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go as in golang?
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pjmlp
1 day ago
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Yes, the language is called Go, not Golang.
Originally designed by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike and Ken Thompson.
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kragen
1 day ago
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Presumably, since that's one of the main things he's been working on in recent decades. The third paragraph of the linked article mentions this.
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Uhhrrr
16 hours ago
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Yes, he was starting to talk about it at the end of the interview.
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GeekyBear
23 hours ago
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The long form interview series by the Computer History Museum are excellent resources.
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Aloha
21 hours ago
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That was just an incredible read.
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