Dick Grune is a Dutch computer scientist and university lecturer best known for inventing and developing the first version of the

Concurrent Versions System Concurrent Versions System (CVS, also known as the Concurrent Versioning System) is a revision control system originally developed by Dick Grune in July 1986. CVS operates as a front end to RCS, an earlier system which operates on single file ...

(CVS). Grune was involved in the construction of

Algol 68 ALGOL 68 (short for ''Algorithmic Language 1968'') is an imperative programming language that was conceived as a successor to the ALGOL 60 programming language, designed with the goal of a much wider scope of application and more rigorously d ...

compiler In computing, a compiler is a computer program that translates computer code written in one programming language (the ''source'' language) into another language (the ''target'' language). The name "compiler" is primarily used for programs tha ...

s in the 1970s and the

Amsterdam Compiler Kit The Amsterdam Compiler Kit (ACK) is a retargetable compiler suite and toolchain written by Andrew Tanenbaum and Ceriel Jacobs, since 2005 maintained by David Given. It has frontends for the following programming languages: C, Pascal, Modula- ...

in the 1980s. He also named

gnome sort Gnome sort (nicknamed stupid sort) is a variation of the insertion sort sorting algorithm that does not use nested loops. Gnome sort was originally proposed by Iranian computer scientist Hamid Sarbazi-Azad (professor of Computer Science and Engin ...

, a sorting algorithm invented by Hamid Sarbazi-Azad, who originally published it under the name ''stupid sort''.

Selected publications

* Henri E. Bal and Dick Grune. ''Programming Language Essentials''. Addison-Wesley, 1994. . * Dick Grune and Ceriel J. H. Jacobs. ''Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide'' (Second Edition). Springer, 2008. . * 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.

References

External links

Dick Grune's home pageDick Grune's blog
Living people Dutch computer scientists Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam faculty Concurrent Versions System People from Enschede Year of birth missing (living people) {{Netherlands-scientist-stub