Lorinda Cherry

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Lorinda Cherry is a computer programmer. She joined Unix in 1972 as an assembly language programmer. She received her Masters in computer science from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1969.[1]

She has worked on mathematical tools such as TeX, bc and co-authored Eqn with Brian Kernighan.[2]

Her non-mathematical tools work included the dictionary for the Unix spell checker [3] and the Bell Labs's Writer's Workbench (wwb).

Lorinda raced rally cars as a hobby.

References

  1. ^ "Lorinda Cherry". http://tiny.antville.org/stories/906514/. Retrieved 2009-08-22. 
  2. ^ Seth, Malika. "Lorinda Cherry". http://www.princeton.edu/~hos/frs122/precis/cherry1.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-22. 
  3. ^ IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, vol. PC-1, 1982?

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