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Happy Birthday to Ken Thompson! 🎉 A tech legend who co-created UNIX, C, B, and Go. 💻 🔥

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Happy Birthday Ken Thompson Feb 4, 1943 UNIX,B, C & Go Co-Creator. There is a photo of Ken wearing a red shirt arranged against a mixed blue-green backdrop filled with balloons and a gradient. There is also the It's FOSS logo towards the bottom left.
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Janneke
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Janneke
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yay and his amazing "Reflections on Trusting Trust" was the grand inspiration for #GNU Mes and to start implementing the Full Source Bootstrap in #Guix! Thank you so much Ken!

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The Full-Source Bootstrap: Building from source all the way down — 2023 — Blog — GNU Guix

Blog posts about GNU Guix.
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Maximilian Overdraft, Esq.
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C and UNIX were simple enough that anyone with even the most rudimentary programming experience could learn both in a 1 credit seminar, in 1988, as I did. Kudos for laying the groundwork for all modern computer programming.
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Mike Taylor 🦕
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And UTF-8. And won the world computer chess championship on multiple occasions.

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