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relaxing 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)

I did not say he wrote all of it. “Write” can include co-authorship.

A lot of people are learning some history today, beautiful to see.

jacquesm 4 months ago [–]

I think that if you meant co-authorship you could have made that clearer. A 'contributed to' would have saved some unique ids.

9rx 4 months ago | [–]

> I think that if you meant co-authorship you could have made that clearer.

What lead you to believe until now that Unix was written by just one person?

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