Skip to content
◈ALB Atlas

Charles Geschke Dead

Charles Geschke
KindPerson
Born1939
Died2021
StatusDead
Fieldprogramming languages
Also known asChuck Geschke
Sourcewww.adobe.com ↗

Co-created PostScript at PARC, then co-founded Adobe to sell it — a programming language disguised as a printer driver.

Created PostScript

Co-founded Adobe with Warnock — co-created PostScript at Xerox PARC and commercialized it — and led the company that made desktop publishing.\n\nHis 1992 kidnapping (survived, 4 days) is one of tech's stranger stories; Turing Award 2023 wasn't awarded, but the industry's debt is real.

Sources

  1. adobe.com/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Geschke