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Ken Thompson

États-Unis · Sur la carte · Développeurs · Naissance en 1943 · 83 ans

Kenneth Lane Thompson dit Ken Thompson, né le 4 février 1943 à La Nouvelle-Orléans (Louisiane) est un informaticien américain, concepteur des systèmes Unix et Plan 9 ainsi que des langages B et Go.

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Ken Thompson : environ 647 lectures par jour, en 57 langues.

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Une vie en dates

2019National Inventors Hall of FameDistinction2011“When the three of us [Thompson, Rob Pike, and Robert Griesemer] got started, it was pure research. The three of us got together and decided that we hated C++. [laughter] ...”Ses propres motsKen Thompson, talking about the origins of the Go programming language

Prix japonaisDistinction2009“[C++] certainly has its good points. But by and large I think it's a bad language.”Ses propres motsKen Thompson; cited in

2003Prix Harold-PenderDistinction1999“I am a very bottom-up thinker. If you give me the right kind of Tinker Toys, I can imagine the building.”Ses propres mots"Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson," 1999

“Unix was a very small, understandable OS, so people could change it at their will. It would run itself - you could type "go" and in a few minutes it would recompile itself.”Ses propres mots"Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson," 1999

“I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less. I don't think it will be very successful in the long run.”Ses propres mots"Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson," 1999

“Anything new will have to come along with the type of revolution that came along with Unix. Nothing was going to topple IBM until something came along that made them irrelevant.”Ses propres mots"Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson," 1999

1998National Medal of Technology and InnovationDistinction1994Computer Pioneer AwardDistinction1990Médaille Richard-HammingDistinction1983Prix ACM Software SystemDistinctionPrix TuringDistinction1982Prix IEEE Emanuel R. PioreDistinction1943Naissance4 février 1943

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4 déclarations, les plus récentes d'abord

  1. I would try out the [C++] language [at AT&T] as it was being developed and make comments on it. It was part of the work atmosphere there.

    2009 · Ken Thompson; cited in, Ses propres mots

  2. I used to [look at the Linux source code], for Plan 9. They were always ahead of us - they just had massively more resources to deal with hardware.

    2009 · Ken Thompson; cited in, Ses propres mots

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

    1999 · "Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson," 1999, Ses propres mots

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Distinctions

National Inventors Hall of Fame2019
Prix japonais2011
Prix Harold-Pender2003
National Medal of Technology and Innovation1998
Computer Pioneer Award1994
Médaille Richard-Hamming1990
Prix Turing1983
Prix ACM Software System1983
Prix IEEE Emanuel R. Piore1982

À propos de cette personne

Pays
États-Unis
Catégorie
Développeurs
Type
Développement logiciel
Statut
En vie
Dates
Naissance en 1943 · 83 ans

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