> Rob Pike wrote Unix

Unix was created by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs (AT&T) in 1969. Thompson wrote the initial version, and Ritchie later contributed significantly, including developing the C programming language, which Unix was subsequently rewritten in.

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9rx 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Pike didn’t create Unix initially, but was a contributor to it. He, with a team, unquestionably wrote it.

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andsoitis 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> but was a contributor to it. He, with a team, unquestionably wrote it.

contribute < wrote.

His credits are huge, but I think saying he wrote Unix is misattribution.

Credits include: Plan 9 (successor to Unix), Unix Window System, UTF-8 (maybe his most universally impactful contribution), Unix Philosophy Articulation, strings/greps/other tools, regular expressions, C successor work that ultimately let him to Go.

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9rx 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Are you under the impression he was, like, a hands-off project manager or something? His involvement was in writing it. Not singlehandedly, but certainly as part of a team. He unquestionably wrote it. He did not envision it like he did the other projects you mention, but the original credit was only in the writing of.

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amw-zero 2 hours ago | parent [-]

To say "Rob Pike wrote Unix" is completely inaccurate. He joined after v7, in 1980.

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		Nobody seems to be questioning that he was involved in Unix. Given that he didn't write it, what did he do for the project? Quality assurance? Support? Marketing? Court jester?