L. Peter Deutsch is the founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator of Ghostscript, a free software PostScript interpreter. Ghostscript is a suite of free software based on interpreter of the Adobe PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages. ... PostScript (PS) is a page description language used primarily in the electronic and desktop publishing areas. ...
Peter's other work includes the definitive Smalltalk implementation that, among other innovations, inspired Javajust-in-time technology 15 or-so years earlier. He also wrote the PDP-1 Lisp 1.5 implementation "while still in short pants". Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed, reflective, programming language designed at Xerox PARC by Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, Ted Kaehler, Adele Goldberg, and others during the 1970s. ... The Java Platform is the name for a computing environment from Sun Microsystems which can run applications developed using the standard Java programming language and set of development tools. ... See also Just-in-time compilation for the technique for improving the performance of interpreted programs in computing. ...
He is also the author of a number of RFCs. A Request for Comments (RFC) document is one of a series of numbered Internet informational documents and standards very widely followed by both commercial software and freeware in the Internet and Unix communities. ...
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Deutsch [Page 1] INTERNET-DRAFT GZIP Compressed Data Format Specification 21 Mar 1996 Abstract This specification defines a lossless compressed data format that is compatible with the widely used GZIP utility.
This Deutsch [Page 6] INTERNET-DRAFT GZIP Compressed Data Format Specification 21 Mar 1996 is the original name of the file being compressed, with any directory components removed, and, if the file being compressed is on a file system with case insensitive names, forced to lower case.
Deutsch was born Jan. 29, 1917 into the intellectual ferment of World War I, Vienna, and a home where his parents, Felix and Helene Deutsch, were both doctors.
Deutsch received a bachelor's degree in 1937 and the Ph.D. from MIT in 1941, completing in six years a course of study that typically takes 11.
Deutsch is survived by his wife, who retired from Massachusetts General Hospital as a supervisor of social work, and two sons, L. PeterDeutsch of Menlo Park, Calif., and Nicholas Deutsch of New York City.
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