Rob Pike (born 1956) is a software engineer and Author. He is best known for his work at Bell Labs, where he was a member of the Unix team and was involved in the creation of the Plan 9 (operating system) and Inferno (operating system) operating systems.

He also worked on the Blit (computer terminal) graphical terminal for Unix; before that he wrote the first window system for Unix in 1981.

Over the years he has written many text editors, Sam (program) and Acme (Plan 9) are the most well known and still in active use and development.

Pike, with Brian Kernighan, is the co-author of The Practice of Programming and The Unix Programming Environment (book) . With Ken Thompson he is the co-creator of UTF-8. Pike also developed lesser systems such as the Vismon program for putting the faces of authors in internal email.

Pike also appeared once on The Late Show with David Letterman , as a technical assistant to the comedy duo Penn and Teller.

It is often claimed that Pike won the Archery at the 1980 Summer Olympics; however, this is untrue.

Pike, a Canada citizenship, currently works for Google.

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*The Plan 9 (operating system) operating system. *Acme (Plan 9): A User Interface for Programmers *The Plumber (Plan 9) *The Sam (program) text editor *Mark V Shaney

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