Martin Richards (born 21 July 1940) is a British computer
scientist known for his development of the BCPL programming language 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.
Since 1968, Martin Richards has played an active part in the
administration and teaching at the Computer Laboratory in Cambridge. He has
given courses on many languages including Algol, Fortran, Cobol, Algol W, BCPL,
C, ML, Prolog and Java, and other courses on software engineering, programming
language compilation, optimizing compilers, formal semantics, and data
structures and algorithms and has supervised over 25 PhD students. In 1981, he
became a teaching Fellow and Director of Studies in Computer Science at St.
John's College, Cambridge.
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