I&#39;ve been asleep at the wheel, but I just learned today that Ken Thompson is at Google (along with Rob Pike and other Unix/Plan9/Inferno Bell Labs alumni).  <br><br>Thompson is currently on Ask a Google engineer...<br>
<a href="http://moderator.appspot.com/#15/e=c9&amp;t=2d">http://moderator.appspot.com/#15/e=c9&amp;t=2d</a><br><br>Q for Thompson: &quot;If you could redesign Unix now, what would you differently?&quot;<br>A by Thompson: &quot;The easy answer is &#39;I would spell creat with an e.&#39;  Remember that Unix was designed 40 years ago. If I could go back to then [...]&quot;<br>
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