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    Ken Thompson

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    I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week. ↗


    — Ken Thompson

    #book #day #ear #finished #five

    I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write. ↗


    — Ken Thompson

    #close #good #good idea #i #i think

    I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals. ↗


    — Ken Thompson

    #i #special #terminals #wanted

    I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems. ↗


    — Ken Thompson

    #file #i #least #memory #systems

    I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different. ↗


    — Ken Thompson

    #data #different #i #instructions #programs

    If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there. ↗


    — Ken Thompson

    #best way #get #go #somewhere #want

    In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises. ↗


    — Ken Thompson

    #before #college #exercises #games #ourselves

    It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas. ↗


    — Ken Thompson

    #develops #good #ideas #something #take

    No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. ↗


    — Ken Thompson

    #code #protect #scrutiny #using #verification

    On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. ↗


    — Ken Thompson

    #hand #heroes #kids #make #movies






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    National Medal of Technology
    On April 27 1999 Thompson and Ritchie jointly received the 1998 National Medal of Technology from President Bill Clinton for co-inventing the UNIX operating system and the C programming language which together have led to enormous advances in computer hardware software and networking systems and stimulated growth of an entire industry thereby enhancing American leadership in the Information Age. He also invented the B programming language the direct predecessor to the C programming language and was one of the creators and early developers of the Plan 9 operating systems. Thompson's style of programming has influenced others notably in the terseness of his expressions and a preference for clear statements.

    Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4 1943) commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles is an American pioneer of computer science. Having worked at Bell Labs for most of his career Thompson designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. Other notable contributions included his work on regular expressions and early computer text editors QED and ed his work on computer chess that included creation of endgame tablebases and the chess machine Belle.

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