Martin Richards (computer scientist)

Martin Richards
Born (1940-07-21) 21 July 1940 (age 84)[2]
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forBasic Combined Programming Language
AwardsIEEE Computer Pioneer Award (2003)
Scientific career
FieldsProgramming languages
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
Thesis The design and implementation of CPL-like programming languages  (1967)
Doctoral advisorDavid Barron, David Park and Christopher Strachey
Doctoral studentsEben Upton[1]
Martin Vechev
Websitewww.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10

Martin Richards (born 21 July 1940) is a British computer scientist known for his development of the BCPL programming language[3] which is both part of early research into portable software, and the ancestor of the B programming language invented by Ken Thompson in early versions of Unix and which Dennis Ritchie in turn used as the basis of his widely used C programming language.

  1. ^ Upton, Eben (2006). Compiling with data dependence graphs (DPhil thesis). University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ Cf. British Library catalogue entry for BCPL, the language and its compiler, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1979.
  3. ^ Richards, M. (1971). "The portability of the BCPL compiler". Software: Practice and Experience. 1 (2): 135–146. doi:10.1002/spe.4380010204.