Lennart Augustsson
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Lennart Augustsson is a lecturer at the Computing Science Department at Chalmers University of Technology. His research field is functional programming and implementations of functional languages.
Lennart is the author of:
- The Cayenne programming language.
- The HBC Haskell compiler.
- Several hardware device drivers for NetBSD.
- The front end of the pH compiler (parallel Haskell) from MIT.
- The initial version of the Bluespec compiler.
He was intimately involved in early LPMud development, both in the LPMUD driver and the CD mudlib.
Lennart 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)