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
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: The US healthcare system is just really quite broken and there is probably not some individual there who's just going "MWAHAHAHA, my plan to increase the price of healthcare has succeeded, and I could easily make everything reasonable but I won't because I'm evil!", or one person who could decide to just make some stuff free right now without introducing some huge issues. It's a systemic issue.
gollark: Yes, they do have considerations other than minimizing short-term COVID-19 deaths, but that is sensible because other things do matter.
gollark: The US government, and large business owners and whoever else ("capitalism"), don't really want people to die in large numbers *either*, they're:- still *people*- adversely affected by said large numbers dying, because: - if lots of people die in the US compared to elsewhere, they'll look bad come reelection - most metrics people look at will also be worse off if many die and/or are ill for a while - many deaths would reduce demand for their stuff, and they might lose important workers, and more deaths means a worse recession
gollark: That is stupid on so many levels. Is it meant to be some homepathic thing, where the blood is obviously even more worserer if they dilute it?
gollark: Why did YouTube recommend this to me‽ Why?

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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