Stephen R. Bourne

Stephen Richard Bourne ( born January 7, 1944) is a British computer scientist, mathematician, and from 2000 to 2002, President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM ). In 1974, he developed significant for the Unix operating system named after him Bourne shell ( "sh "). This shell was for the AT & T created at Bell Laboratories, where John Mashey assisted. The Bourne shell is the basis of today's popular command-line interpreter for Unix or Linux.

Bourne also developed the first version of the Advanced debugger ( adb ), of still available on almost all UNIX systems based debugger.

  • Person (Unix)
  • Computer scientist
  • Briton
  • Born in 1944
  • Man
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