| ▲ | A new oral history interview with Ken Thompson(computerhistory.org) |
| 89 points by oldnetguy 9 days ago | 7 comments |
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| ▲ | Uhhrrr 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| 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 4 days ago | parent [-] | | go as in golang? | | |
| ▲ | pjmlp 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Yes, the language is called Go, not Golang. Originally designed by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike and Ken Thompson. | |
| ▲ | kragen 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 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. | |
| ▲ | Uhhrrr 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yes, he was starting to talk about it at the end of the interview. |
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| ▲ | GeekyBear 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The long form interview series by the Computer History Museum are excellent resources. |
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| ▲ | Aloha 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| That was just an incredible read. |
