Wouter van Oortmerssen

Wouter van Oortmerssen

Wouter van Oortmerssen, also known as Aardappel, is a Dutch computer programmer notable for his work in game programming as well as having designed several programming languages. He has a Masters degree in computational linguistics from the University of Amsterdam and a PhD in computer science from the University of Southampton.Currently he is a professor for Software Development at the Guildhall of the Southern Methodist University.

In the context of games, he has worked on "Far Cry" and is the creator of the open source game engines "Cube" and "Sauerbraten". Van Oortmerssen also created "PanQuake" and "Fisheye Quake" based on the "Quake" source code, and "WadC", a language for generating "Doom" levels.

Among his programming languages are Amiga E and FALSE, which contributed to enthusiasm for the esoteric programming language movement (inspiring the infamous brainfuck and Befunge languages).

Wouter is a humorous guy preferring strange names for his programming languages and often also programming examples.

External links

* [http://wouter.fov120.com/ The web pages of Wouter van Oortmerssen]
* [http://guildhall.smu.edu/Faculty.15.0.html?&cHash=ca12487200&tx_guildhallbio_pi1showUid=15 Short biography at SMU Guildhall]


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