Dick Grune, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Dick Grune

Dutch computer scientist

Date of Birth: 07-Dec-1939

Place of Birth: Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands

Profession: engineer, computer scientist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Dick Grune (born December 7, 1939, Enschede) is a Dutch computer scientist and university lecturer best known for inventing and developing the first version of the Concurrent Versions System (CVS).
Grune was involved in the construction of Algol 68 compilers in the 1970s and the Amsterdam Compiler Kit in the 1980s. He also gave the name to Gnome sort, a sorting algorithm invented by Hamid Sarbazi-Azad, who originally published it under a name Stupid sort.