Stephen Bourne Alive
Wrote the Bourne shell for Unix V7 — the sh syntax every #!/bin/sh script still speaks.
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Created Bourne shell
Wrote the Bourne shell (sh, 1979) at Bell Labs — the shell every /bin/sh descends from — after creating the Cambridge ALGOL compiler.\n\nIts design — a proper language, not a command interpreter — is why scripts are programs.