Lennart Augustsson

Lennart Augustsson is a Swedish computer scientist. He was previously a lecturer at the Computing Science Department at Chalmers University of Technology. His research field is functional programming and implementations of functional languages.^[1]

Augustsson has worked for Carlstedt Research and Technology, Sandburst, and Credit Suisse and is currently employed by Standard Chartered Bank.^[2]

Augustsson is the author of:

• The Cayenne programming language.^[3]
• The HBC Haskell compiler.^[4]
• Several hardware device drivers for NetBSD.^[5]
• The front end of the pH compiler (parallel Haskell) from MIT.^[6]
• The initial version of the Bluespec compiler.^[7]

He was also a co-developer, with Thomas Johnsson, of Lazy ML.^[8]

Augustsson was intimately involved in early LPMud development, both in the LPMUD driver and the CD mudlib. His MUD community pseudonym is Marvin.^[9]

Augustsson has written three winning entries in the International Obfuscated C Code Contest:

• 1985: Most obscure program (1985/august.c)
• 1986: Best complex task done in a complex way (1986/august.c)
• 1996: Best of Show (1996/august.c)

References

1. "Commercial Users of Functional Programming -- Lennart Augustsson". Archived from the original on 8 February 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
2. "Lennart Augustsson". Google Plus profile. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
3. "Cayenne -- A language with dependent types". Retrieved 18 September 2016.
4. "Haskell Implementations". Retrieved 18 September 2016.
5. "Chapter 13 USB Devices". Retrieved 18 September 2016.
6. "Parallel Haskell". Retrieved 18 September 2016.
7. "Bluespec -- Designer's Perspective" (PDF). Retrieved 18 September 2016.
8. Augustsson, Lennart (1984). "A Compiler for Lazy ML". Proceedings of the 1984 ACM Symposium on LISP and functional programming. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
9. "Common Expressions LPMud". Retrieved 18 September 2016.

External links

• Official website
• Lennart Augustsson's blog
• The HBC compiler