Dick Grune

Dick Grune (born December 7, 1939, Enschede) is a Dutch computer scientist and university lecturer best known for inventing and developing the first version of the Concurrent Versions System (CVS). Grune was involved in the construction of Algol 68 compilers in the 1970s and the Amsterdam Compiler Kit in the 1980s.

Dick Grune
Born (1939-12-07) December 7, 1939
Enschede, Netherlands
NationalityDutch
Known forCVS
Amsterdam Compiler Kit
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science

He also gave the name to Gnome sort,[1] a sorting algorithm invented by Hamid Sarbazi-Azad, who originally published it under a name Stupid sort.[2]

Selected publications
  • Henri E. Bal and Dick Grune. Programming Language Essentials. Addison-Wesley, 1994. ISBN 0-201-63179-2.
  • Dick Grune and Ceriel J. H. Jacobs. Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide (Second Edition). Springer, 2008. ISBN 978-0-387-20248-8.
  • Dick Grune, Kees van Reeuwijk, Henri E. Bal, Ceriel J. H. Jacobs, and Koen G. Langendoen. Modern Compiler Design (Second Edition). John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
gollark: Be creative. There is a lot of data to be gathered™: your internet browsing history, probably other programs on your computer, sort of thing.
gollark: I'm not talking about just stuff being *blocked*, I'm talking about your data being used for <:bees:724389994663247974> purposes.
gollark: I mean, the UK government is becoming increasingly authoritarian about data and the interwebs.
gollark: If you do not protect your data, you do not know who might have access to it eventually.
gollark: In any case, *any* government could decide to start being more authoritarian one day. Like Turkey's a few years back.

References
  1. "Gnome Sort - The Simplest Sort Algorithm". Dickgrune.com. 2000-10-02. Retrieved 2018-06-25.
  2. Sarbazi-Azad, Hamid (2 October 2000). "Stupid Sort: A new sorting algorithm" (PDF). Newsletter. Computing Science Department, Univ. of Glasgow (599): 4. Retrieved 25 June 2018.


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