D. Richard Hipp

Dwayne Richard Hipp (born April 9, 1961) is a software developer and the primary author of SQLite as well as the Fossil SCM.[1][2] He also authored the Lemon parser generator, and CVSTrac, the latter became the inspiration for Trac. He was also a member of the Tcl core team.[3]

D. Richard Hipp
Hipp in 2008
Born
Dwayne Richard Hipp

(1961-04-09) April 9, 1961
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
NationalityUSA
Known forSQLite, Fossil, Lemon
Spouse(s)
Ginger G. Wyrick
(
m. 1994)
AwardsGoogle-O'Reilly Open Source Award
Websitewww.hwaci.com/drh

Life and career

Hipp was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on April 9, 1961 but grew up in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Stone Mountain High School in 1979 and enrolled at Georgia Tech. He graduated from Georgia Tech in 1984 with Master of Science in Electrical Engineering.[4]

After graduating from Georgia Tech, Hipp worked at AT&T for three years before returning to graduate school at Duke University to study under Alan W. Biermann in the Department of Computer Science. He took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Duke in 1992 and finding the academic market for PhDs saturated with what he believed to be better qualified candidates, started his own software development consulting company.[5] He designed SQLite in the spring of 2000 while working for General Dynamics on contract with the United States Navy.[2]

He married Ginger G. Wyrick on April 16, 1994, changed the name of his company to Hipp, Wyrick & Company, Inc, and signed all stock over to Wyrick.[5] He and his wife moved to their present home in Charlotte, North Carolina in August 1995.

gollark: Nim is an interesting possibility which I may investigate, yes.
gollark: I feel like that would just be OCaml but the ecosystem is even more nonexistent.
gollark: It has nice features but also horrible things.
gollark: I tried using it for stuff and I disliked it.
gollark: Haskell is obviously no, Python is quite slow and has different ecosystem problems as well as a remarkable amount of weird inconsistency, JS dependencies break after about 5 months and it's an awful language, Rust is somewhat nice but annoying compared to higher level languages, Clojure is maybe good however Lisp and also Java (well, JVM), and... that's about it?

References
  1. Anderson, Tim (2007-06-21). "Size isn't everything for the modest creator of SQLite". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  2. Allen, Grant; Owens, Mike (2011). The Definitive Guide to SQLite. Apress.
  3. "[TCLCORE] TCL CORE TEAM ANNOUNCES: Harrison, Hopp, Ingham, Welch leave Tcl Core Team". code.activestate.com. 15 December 2008. Retrieved 2015-06-21.
  4. "O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2004 - Speaker". O'Reilly. 2004.
  5. "#201: SQLite with Richard Hipp - The Changelog". The Changelog. 2016-04-29. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
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