Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson
Kenneth Lane "Ken" Thompson, 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. 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. Since 2006, Thompson has worked at Google, where he co-invented the Go...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth4 February 1943
CountryUnited States of America
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Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.
I just know it has to be paid for, and it has to be paid for through productivity and the creation of wealth.
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SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!
I am a very bottom-up thinker.
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.