| ▲ | andsoitis 6 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
> 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. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | 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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