Editing Pike (programming language) (section)

== History ==
Pike has its roots in [[LPC (programming language)|LPC]], which was a language developed for [[Multi-user dungeon|MUD]]s. Programmers at [[Lysator]] in [[Linköping]], Sweden, most notably Fredrik Hübinette and Per Hedbor,<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://pike.lysator.liu.se/about/pike/history.xml
| title = The history of pike
}}</ref> separated the language and virtual machine from the rest of the MUD driver, and used it as a rapid prototyping language for various applications, calling it LPC4.

LPC's license did not allow use for commercial purposes, and so a new GPL implementation was written in 1994, called μLPC (micro LPC).

In 1996, μLPC was renamed to Pike in order to provide a more commercially viable name. Although the name of the company has changed over the years, the company now known as Roxen Internet Software employed many Pike developers, and provided resources for Pike's development. [[Roxen (web server)|Roxen]] is also the name of a web server developed by the company in Pike. In 2002, the programming environment laboratory at [[Linköping University]] took over maintenance of Pike from Roxen. Several Pike programmers have found their way to the Linköping office of [[Opera Software]], where the language plays a central role in the server/gateway parts of the [[Opera Mini]] application.<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.lextrait.com/Vincent/implementations.html
| title = The Programming Languages Beacon, v10.0
| first = Vincent
| last = Lextrait
| date = January 2010
| accessdate = 14 March 2010
| archive-url = https://archive.today/20120530/http://www.lextrait.com/Vincent/implementations.html
| archive-date = 30 May 2012
| url-status = dead
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Hacker News - Pike Programming Language - Discussion - We built the Opera Mini server infrastructure based on Pike, starting back in 20... |url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31453477 |website=news.ycombinator.com |access-date=1 August 2023}}</ref>