Rob Pike

• Unix user name: rob
• Unix uid: ?
• Commands written: jim, sam, acme, rio, ...
• Languages created: squeak, newsqueak, Sawzall, Go.
• Text editor of choice: Acme.

Books

• The Practice of Programming with Brian Kernighan. (1999)
• Unix Programming Environment also with Brian Kernighan. (1984)
• Places of Power: The Aesthetics of Technology with John Sexton and foreword by Walter Cronkite. (2000)

Papers, Presentations and Articles

• Program Design in the UNIX Environmen (aka *cat -v Considered Harmful") with Brian W. Kernighan.
• The Blit: A Multiplexed Graphics Terminal.
• A Concurrent Window System.
• Window Systems Should Be Transparent.
• Structural Regular Expressions.
• Notes on Programming in C, Rob's programming style guide.
• A tutorial on the Sam editor language.
• UTF-8 History - The tale of how Rob Pike and Ken Thompson invented UTF-8 and converted Plan 9 to use it everywhere in a few days.
• Face the Nation with David L. Presotto.
• Squeak: a Language for Communicating with Mice with Luca Cardelli (Not to be confused with Alan Kay's 'squeak').
• Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (aka utah2000 or utah2k) (Russian translation).
• The Hideous Name with P.J. Weinberger.
• Plan 9 From Bell Labs with Ken Thompson, Dave Presotto, Sean Dorward, Bob Flandrena, Howard Trickey, and Phil Winterbottom.
• (This list is still incomplete...)