Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943), commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles,[1] 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 works at Google, where he co-invented the Go programming language.
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Seibel, P. (2009). Ken Thompson. In Coders at Work (pp. 449–483). Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-1949-1_12
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