Building a Better Go Linker

Re:Building a Better Go Linker by cpeterso on Thursday September 12, 2019 @05:59PM (#20956912)

"The original linker was also simpler than it is now and its implementation fit in one Turing award winner’s head, so there’s little abstraction or modularity. Unfortunately, as the linker grew and evolved, it retained its lack of structure, and our sole Turing award winner retired." :)

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Re:Building a Better Go Linker by luuio on Thursday September 12, 2019 @07:00PM (#20957384)

For those out of the loop, who are they talking about here?

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Re:Building a Better Go Linker by insulanus on Friday September 13, 2019 @12:02AM (#20959073)

Definitely Ken Thompson. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson

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Re:Building a Better Go Linker by p7IDD243 on Thursday September 12, 2019 @07:02PM (#20957405)

Perhaps Ken Thompson?

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Re:Building a Better Go Linker by rjammala on Thursday September 12, 2019 @07:05PM (#20957429)

Kenneth Lane Thompson is an American pioneer of computer science. Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career where he designed and implemented the original Unix operating system.

Books: Queen and Pawn Against Queen, Roycroft's 5-man Chess Endgame Series

Awards: Turing Award, National Medal of Technology and Innovation, Japan Prize

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