Dick Grune
Encyclopedia
Dick Grune is a Dutch
computer scientist and university lecturer best known for inventing and developing the first version of CVS
, the Concurrent Versions System. Grune was involved in the construction of Algol 68
compiler
s in the 1970s and the Amsterdam Compiler Kit
in the 1980s.
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
computer scientist and university lecturer best known for inventing and developing the first version of CVS
Concurrent Versions System
The Concurrent Versions System , also known as the Concurrent Versioning System, is a client-server free software revision control system in the field of software development. Version control system software keeps track of all work and all changes in a set of files, and allows several developers ...
, the Concurrent Versions System. Grune was involved in the construction of Algol 68
ALGOL 68
ALGOL 68 isan imperative computerprogramming language that was conceived as a successor to theALGOL 60 programming language, designed with the goal of a...
compiler
Compiler
A compiler is a computer program that transforms source code written in a programming language into another computer language...
s in the 1970s and the Amsterdam Compiler Kit
Amsterdam Compiler Kit
The Amsterdam Compiler Kit is a fast, lightweight and retargetable compiler suite and toolchain written by Andrew Tanenbaum and Ceriel Jacobs, and is MINIX's native toolchain. The ACK was originally closed-source software , but in April 2003 it was released under an open source BSD license...
in the 1980s.
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.