B-Inventor of Ken Thomson & C-language inventor Dennis Ritchie

Ken Thomson, inventor of the C language, did not have the power to submit code in Google because he did not attend the C language exam.

The mourning is over and life goes on.

Tell me something interesting. As we all know, the inventor of C language and UNIX, the Turing Prize winner, the most legendary programmer Ken Thompson joined Google, with a bunch of experts to work out another blockbuster: The Concurrency era of the system programming language go. Go broke into the top 20 of the programming language list and created a miracle.

However, Gawker website today, he in Google actually did not submit code power! The reason, however, is that all programmers must pass the programming language exam, and he has not taken this test, at least before the writing of "coders at Works", as stipulated by the company:

Peter Seibel: I know that Google has a rule that every new employee will be allowed to submit code after being tested in a programming language. So you're going to have to take the test (you invented it yourself) Cristiano Ronaldo?

Thompson: Yes, I haven't tested it yet.

Seibel: You haven't tested yet? Can't you just submit the code?

Thompson: Yes, I can't submit the code. I just haven't been to the exam yet, and I haven't felt the need to test it.

It looks like Google is really a rule-based company. Three years ago, Google was exposed to using algorithms and bots to rate resumes submitted by applicants. There's also a lot of weird stuff in the recruiting and interviewing process that keeps the headlines.

Coincidentally, yesterday became the CSDN headline article "From Gates to Zuckerberg: the Power of geeks," also burst out of the development of one of the core Mac operating system programmers Hertzfeld now in Google is not happy:

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not just time that makes Hertz change, but also his working environment. Google sees engineers as the most important asset, thinking that employees must enjoy the work they do, while supporting open source software. But Hertz admits that Google is a big company that has strict standards and procedures in product design, thus reducing the fun in his work. He said: "My relationship with the job is the relationship between the artist and his work, but at Google, I can't get happiness from my work." "

Although personal control is reduced, Hertz has the potential to have a greater impact. Sometimes, Google's lines of code can affect thousands of people, which brings a passion for his work. "Everything here is in the mainstream," he said. Google, the IPhone, are more influential in culture than the Beatles in the 60, and they can even affect the entire human race. "

By the coders, the book is a collection of interviews with 15 top programmers, including the Turing Award winner Gartner, the father of Erlang and JavaScript, Norvig, Guy Steele, and so on, which is the most interesting, juicy and exciting of its kind. The Chinese version is still in translation and will be published by the People's post and telecommunications press Turing company. Microsoft Research Xin Zou did a good reading notes 1,2,3,4, you can go to the sneak peek. It is sometimes important to know the idea of a master.

"Biography of the People"

Ken Thompson 's computer science pioneer, the most legendary programmer. C language predecessor B language and the inventor of the Go Language, UNIX and Plan 9 operating systems, UTF-8, and regular expressions. 1983 Turing Award winner, Fellow of the American Academy of Sciences and the Faculty of Engineering. Born February 4, 1943 in New Orleans. M.S. in electronic Engineering and computer Science, University of California, Berkeley. He joined Bell Labs in 1966 and retired in 2000.

According to the literature, in 1969, he developed the earliest parts of Unix (file system) in order to play his own "space travel" game on a PDP-7 computer in the boring time after the Multics operating system project failed. Yes, the great operating system is played out.

He also developed a chess program called Belle, playing the invincible hand.

Andy Hertzfeld Apple's first software magician is also one of the main developers of Mac operating systems. He is also the founder of Folklore.org, the famous Apple anecdote website, which later became a book of Apple's Past (published by the electronics Industry Press, Bowen).

Original: https://www.csdn.net/article/1970-01-01/276155

B-Inventor of Ken Thomson & C-language inventor Dennis Ritchie