Cornelis H. A. Koster
Cornelis Antonius Hermanns " Kees " Koster (* July 13, 1943, † March 21, 2013 ) was a Dutch computer scientist and doyen of compiler construction and programming language in the computer science and linguist. 1977 Koster was developed by the Technical University of Berlin, where he ( computer science ), the Working Group had conducted at the Department of Software Engineering 20, was appointed to the University of Nijmegen. Last Koster was Professor Emeritus at the Radboud University Nijmegen.
Koster was one of the authors of the basic work Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL68 and creator of the Compiler Description Language (CDL ) and the Affix Grammars, a variant of Van Wijngaarden grammars.
Life
Koster attended primary school in Jakarta, Indonesia. In the build phase of the Department of Cybernetics / computer science at the TU Berlin Koster led from 1972 to 1976 together with Bleicke Eggers the field programming languages and compilers. Under his guidance, the programming languages CDL and ELAN developed at the Technical University of Berlin, which were used for many years in the education of students, not only at the TU Berlin.
Publications
- Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL68. The text used to define the language ALGOL68 instead of context-free Backus- Naur form for the first time, the context-sensitive, Aad van Wijngaarden named after vW grammars.