News 🫡 No offense, Linus Torvalds... but this man is the greatest geek of our time.

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No offense, Linus Torvalds... but this man is the greatest geek of our time.

In 1971, at the age of 28, he created UNIX, the system on which the entire modern Internet is built.

In 2009, at the age of 66, he became a co-author of the Go language, one of the most popular languages in the world of DevOps and microservices.

But this is just the beginning:

▪ He developed the B language, which became the basis for the C language
▪ Created UTF-8, an encoding that allows us to see text in any language on the Internet
▪ Invented grep - a command that no developer can do without
▪ Worked on Multics, Plan 9, Inferno - four operating systems created by one person

Most people don't use even two OS in their lives. And he created four.

And yet...
Almost no one knows about him.

Remember the name: Ken Thompson.
🛠 One of those who literally built the digital world we live in.

🏛 Rome wasn't built in a day... but grep was built almost overnight

The story of how grep was created is truly fascinating.

One of the creators of the UNIX operating system, Ken Thompson , developed grep literally "overnight".

In fact, he already had a personal tool for searching text in files.
One day his boss, Doug McIlroy, came up to him and said:

"You know, it would be great to be able to search for what you need in files."

Thompson replied:

"Okay, I'll think about it tonight."

He came home, refined his old code, fixed bugs - and all this took no more than an hour.

The next day he showed the result to McIlroy.
He exclaimed:

"This is exactly what I needed!"

And then it's history.

If you're wondering why the tool is called grep and not just search, there's a pretty logical explanation