Dick Grune Explained

Dick Grune
Birth Place:	Enschede, Netherlands
Nationality:	Dutch
Known For:	CVS Amsterdam Compiler Kit
Field:	Computer science

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,^[1] a sorting algorithm invented by Hamid Sarbazi-Azad, who originally published it under the name stupid sort.^[2]

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.

External links

• Dick Grune's home page
• Dick Grune's blog

Notes and References

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