Dick Grune 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.

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

Dick Grune

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.

Dick Grune

References

External links

Dick Grune's home page

Dick Grune's blog

Living people

Dutch computer scientists

Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Concurrent Versions System

People from Enschede

Year of birth missing (living people)

Dick Grune