L Peter Deutsch | |
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Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
Spouse(s) | Barbara J. Grosz (divorced), James R. Hughson (deceased), Michael J. Golub |
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'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.