L. Peter Deutsch

L Peter Deutsch
L Peter Deutsch
Born	August 7, 1946 (age 78); Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Spouse(s)	Barbara J. Grosz (divorced), James R. Hughson (deceased), Michael J. Golub

L Peter Deutsch (born Laurence Peter Deutsch on August 7, 1946, in Boston, Massachusetts) is the founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator of Ghostscript, a free software PostScript and PDF interpreter.

Deutsch's other work includes the Smalltalk implementation that inspired Java just-in-time compilation technology about 15 years later.^[1]

Some stories about him are included in the book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. An interview with him is printed in Coders at Work.

^ "A Conversation with James Gosling", ACM Queue, vol. 2, no. 5, 31 August 2004

[1] "A Conversation with James Gosling", ACM Queue, vol. 2, no. 5, 31 August 2004

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L Peter Deutsch
Born	(1946-08-07) August 7, 1946 (age 78) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Spouse(s)	Barbara J. Grosz (divorced), James R. Hughson (deceased), Michael J. Golub