David Korn (computer scientist)

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David Korn
Born (1943-08-28) August 28, 1943 (age 80)
Brooklyn, New York
, U.S.
OccupationComputer programmer

David Gerard Korn (August 28, 1943

command line interface/programming language
.

Education and work

David Korn received his undergraduate degree in

backward-compatible with Bourne shell, but takes a lot of ideas from C shell, such as history viewing and vi
-like command line editing.

Korn shell and Microsoft

Mortice Kern Systems (MKS) in a UNIX integration package for Windows NT.[discuss] This version was not compatible with ksh88 (a Korn shell specification), and Korn mentioned this during a question and answer period of a Microsoft presentation during a USENIX NT conference in Seattle in 1998. Greg Sullivan, a Microsoft product manager who was participating in the presentation, not knowing who the commenter was, insisted that Microsoft had indeed chosen a "real" Korn shell. A polite debate ensued, with Sullivan continuing to insist that the man giving the criticisms was mistaken about the compatibility issues. Sullivan only backed down when an audience member stood up and mentioned that the man making the comments was none other than the eponymous David Korn.[3][4]

Other software projects

Along with Korn shell, he is also known as the creator of

sfio,[6]
a library for managing I/O streams.

Korn became a

Florham Park, New Jersey,[7] and he retired from Google in early February 2018.[8][9]

Family

His parents were Florence[10] and Nathaniel Korn. The Korn family moved to Monroe in 1947 where they raised five children.

In 1967 he married Susan Lyn Weiner.[11]

David Korn's son Adam used to work at Goldman Sachs.[12][13]

References

  1. ^ "NASA Notice for Handling Proposals: Numerical Design of Transonic Shockless Airfoils" (PDF). Langley Research Center. Cultural Resources Geographical Information Systems. NASA. October 1969.
  2. ^ http://aero-comlab.stanford.edu/Papers/Garabedian.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  3. ^ "David Korn Tells All": Interview with David Korn on Slashdot, February 7, 2001
  4. ^ A person's take on the David Korn encounter, via Internet Archive.
  5. ^ David G. Korn, "UWIN—UNIX for Windows", Conference: Proceedings of the USENIX Windows NT Workshop on The USENIX Windows NT Workshop 1997
  6. ^ Korn, David G. and Kiem-Phong Vo. “SFIO: Safe/Fast String/File IO.” USENIX (1991).
  7. ^ Fowler, Glenn (1 October 2013). "[ast-users] dgk & gsf status". lists.research.att.com. Archived from the original on 30 November 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  8. ^ "Dgkorn - Overview". GitHub.
  9. ^ "David Korn". LinkedIn.
  10. ^ "Archived copy". www.legacy.com. Archived from the original on 11 March 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. ^ "David Gerard Korn".
  12. ^ Hoffman, Liz; Demos, Telis (18 August 2018). "Wall Street Erases the Line Between Its Jocks and Nerds". Wall Street Journal. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  13. ^ Hoffman, Liz (4 February 2020). "King of Goldman's 'Straders' to Leave Firm". Wall Street Journal. Wall Street Journal.

External links

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