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Brian Fox
KindPerson
Born1959
StatusAlive
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Wrote bash for the GNU Project — the default shell of nearly every Linux system ever installed.

Created Bash

Wrote bash (1989) — the GNU Bourne-Again shell — as the FSF's first employee; also wrote GNU Makeinfo, the readline library, and much of early GNU.\n\nStallman's first hire; the shell that runs everywhere is his.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Fox_(computer_programmer)