L. Peter Deutsch

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L Peter Deutsch
Born (1946-08-07) August 7, 1946 (age 78)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma materUniversity 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 an American computer scientist and composer. He 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]

  1. ^ "A Conversation with James Gosling", ACM Queue, vol. 2, no. 5, 31 August 2004