Martin Richards (computer scientist)
British computer scientist (born 1940) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Martin Richards (born 21 July 1940) is a British computer scientist known for his development of the BCPL programming language[3] which is both part of early research into portable software, and the ancestor of the B programming language invented by Ken Thompson in early versions of Unix and which Dennis Ritchie in turn used as the basis of his widely used C programming language.
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Martin Richards | |
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Born | (1940-07-21) 21 July 1940 (age 83)[1] |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Known for | Basic Combined Programming Language |
Awards | IEEE Computer Pioneer Award (2003) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Programming languages |
Institutions | University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory |
Thesis | The design and implementation of CPL-like programming languages (1967) |
Doctoral advisor | David Barron, David Park and Christopher Strachey |
Doctoral students | Eben Upton[2] |
Website | www |
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