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Yes, he might be a famous programmer like kazinator instead of the co-author of The Practice of Programming and one of the fathers of Go.

don't forget those insignificant little 'Unix' and 'Plan9'/'Inferno' things...

Whilst Pike contributed to Unix it was Thompson's and Ritchie's invention - at least originally

He also co-invented an obscure encoding called "utf-8" that nobody uses.

Only half as good as UTF-16.