L Peter Deutsch (born Laurence Peter Deutsch on August 7, 1946, in Boston, Massachusetts) is the founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator of Ghostscript, a free software PostScript and PDF interpreter.
Deutsch wrote the PDP-1Lisp 1.5 implementation and first REPL, Basic PDP-1 LISP, "while still in short pants" and finished it in 1963, when he was 17 years old.[2] He collaborated with Calvin Mooers on the TRAC programming language and wrote its first implementation, on the PDP-1, in 1964.[3][4]
Deutsch's father was the physicist Martin Deutsch, a professor at MIT.
Deutsch changed his legal first name from "Laurence" to "L" on September 12, 2007.[6] His published work and other public references before that time generally use the name L. Peter Deutsch (with a dot after the L).
After auditing undergraduate music courses at Stanford University, in January 2009, he entered the postgraduate music program at California State University, East Bay, and was awarded a Master of Arts (M.A.) in March 2011. As of mid-2011, he has had six compositions performed at public concerts, and now generally identifies himself as a composer rather than a software developer or engineer.
Referencesedit
^"A Conversation with James Gosling", ACM Queue, vol. 2, no. 5, 31 August 2004
^The LISP Implementation for the PDP-1 Computer, L. Peter Deutsch and Edmund C Berkeley, March 1964
^. tracfoundation.org. Archived from the original on 8 April 2001. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
^Mooers, C.N.; Deutsch, L.P. (1965). "TRAC, A Text-Handling Language". Proceeding ACM '65 Proceedings of the 1965 20th national conference. pp. 229–246. doi:10.1145/800197.806048. S2CID 40013081. full text
peter, deutsch, aladdin, enterprises, redirects, here, confused, with, aladdin, systems, aladdin, knowledge, systems, peter, deutsch, born, laurence, peter, deutsch, august, 1946, boston, massachusetts, founder, aladdin, enterprises, creator, ghostscript, free. Aladdin Enterprises redirects here Not to be confused with Aladdin Systems or Aladdin Knowledge Systems L Peter Deutsch born Laurence Peter Deutsch on August 7 1946 in Boston Massachusetts is the founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator of Ghostscript a free software PostScript and PDF interpreter L Peter DeutschBorn 1946 08 07 August 7 1946 age 77 Boston Massachusetts U S Alma materUniversity of California BerkeleySpouse s Barbara J Grosz divorced James R Hughson deceased Michael J Golub Deutsch s other work includes the Smalltalk implementation that inspired Java just in time compilation technology about 15 years later 1 Some stories about him are included in the book Hackers Heroes of the Computer Revolution An interview with him is printed in Coders at Work Contents 1 Contributions to computer science 2 Personal life 3 References 4 External linksContributions to computer science editDeutsch wrote the PDP 1 Lisp 1 5 implementation and first REPL Basic PDP 1 LISP while still in short pants and finished it in 1963 when he was 17 years old 2 He collaborated with Calvin Mooers on the TRAC programming language and wrote its first implementation on the PDP 1 in 1964 3 4 From 1964 to 1967 during his study at the University of California Berkeley he worked with Butler Lampson and Charles P Thacker on the Berkeley Timesharing System which became the standard operating system for the SDS 940 mainframe that would later be used by Tymshare NLS and Community Memory Deutsch is the author of several Request for Comments RFCs The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing and originated the Deutsch limit adage about visual programming languages Deutsch received a Ph D in computer science from the University of California Berkeley in 1973 5 and has previously worked at Xerox PARC and Sun Microsystems In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery Personal life editDeutsch s father was the physicist Martin Deutsch a professor at MIT Deutsch changed his legal first name from Laurence to L on September 12 2007 6 His published work and other public references before that time generally use the name L Peter Deutsch with a dot after the L After auditing undergraduate music courses at Stanford University in January 2009 he entered the postgraduate music program at California State University East Bay and was awarded a Master of Arts M A in March 2011 As of mid 2011 he has had six compositions performed at public concerts and now generally identifies himself as a composer rather than a software developer or engineer References edit A Conversation with James Gosling ACM Queue vol 2 no 5 31 August 2004 The LISP Implementation for the PDP 1 Computer L Peter Deutsch and Edmund C Berkeley March 1964 TRAC Language T64 tracfoundation org Archived from the original on 8 April 2001 Retrieved 15 January 2022 Mooers C N Deutsch L P 1965 TRAC A Text Handling Language Proceeding ACM 65 Proceedings of the 1965 20th national conference pp 229 246 doi 10 1145 800197 806048 S2CID 40013081 full text L Peter Deutsch June 1973 An interactive program verifier University of California Berkeley a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help Case CIV464587 In Re Laurence Deutsch San Mateo County Civil Court September 12 2007 Retrieved April 16 2011 permanent dead link External links editL Peter Deutsch s PIVOT program verification system thesis and source code RFCs authored or co authored by L Peter Deutsch RFC 190 RFC 446 RFC 550 RFC 567 RFC 606 RFC 1950 RFC 1951 and RFC 1952 L Peter Deutsch in conversation with Stig Hackvan at the Wayback Machine archived October 13 2004 L Peter Deutsch s web page related to music including link to scores and MIDI files nbsp This biographical article relating to a computer specialist in the United States is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title L Peter Deutsch amp oldid 1214278075, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
