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Re:Robpike/Lisp: Toy Lisp 1.5 interpreter in Go by earthboundkid on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @01:09PM (#23553859)
Yes, he might be a famous programmer like kazinator instead of the co-author of The Practice of Programming and one of the fathers of Go.
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Re:Robpike/Lisp: Toy Lisp 1.5 interpreter in Go by cat199 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @01:28PM (#23554111)
don't forget those insignificant little 'Unix' and 'Plan9'/'Inferno' things...
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Re:Robpike/Lisp: Toy Lisp 1.5 interpreter in Go by bear8642 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @05:59PM (#23557279)
Whilst Pike contributed to Unix it was Thompson's and Ritchie's invention - at least originally
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Re:Robpike/Lisp: Toy Lisp 1.5 interpreter in Go by shric on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @06:56PM (#23557807)
He also co-invented an obscure encoding called "utf-8" that nobody uses.
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Re:Robpike/Lisp: Toy Lisp 1.5 interpreter in Go by earthboundkid on Friday June 19, 2020 @11:34PM (#23581385)
Only half as good as UTF-16.
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