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▲A new oral history interview with Ken Thompson (computerhistory.org)
85 points by oldnetguy 7 days ago | 7 comments
Uhhrrr 2 days ago [-]
Hey, they cut him off before he could tell what they did after calculating a Hamiltonian as a Go constant!
NooneAtAll3 2 days ago [-]
go as in golang?
pjmlp 1 days ago [-]
Yes, the language is called Go, not Golang.

Originally designed by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike and Ken Thompson.

kragen 1 days ago [-]
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 24 hours ago [-]
Yes, he was starting to talk about it at the end of the interview.
GeekyBear 1 days ago [-]
The long form interview series by the Computer History Museum are excellent resources.
Aloha 1 days ago [-]
That was just an incredible read.
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