Tech Inventors Attribution
Comments focus on identifying, correcting, or crediting famous programmers and computer scientists like Ken Thompson, Rob Pike, Linus Torvalds, and others as the creators or inventors of various software, languages, tools, and technologies.
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Definitely Ken Thompson. :)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson
Don't forget Brian Kernighan and Ken Thompson!
You're talking about Ken Thompson, Rob Pike and Robert Griesemers, among others.You're not doing yourself any favors.
It's by Ken Thompson, who invented Unix, so it's ok.
Perhaps you're thinking of Rob Pike?
Which was written by one of the Y Combinator founders (Robert Tappan Morris)
Blame Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan. Oh and Larry :)
The author is Philip Greenspun, who in the 1980s worked with the people that created all of the things you listed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_GreenspunThere is nothing myopic about his perspective.
You might be thinking of Linus Torvalds.
Uh... It's Rob Pike and Ken Thompson...