About: Henry Spencer

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Henry Spencer (born 1955) is a Canadian computer programmer and space enthusiast. He wrote "regex", a widely used software library for regular expressions, and co-wrote C News, a Usenet server program. He also wrote The Ten Commandments for C Programmers. He is coauthor, with David Lawrence, of the book Managing Usenet. While working at the University of Toronto he ran the first active Usenet site outside the U.S., starting in 1981. His records from that period were eventually acquired by Google to provide an archive of Usenet in the 1980s.

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  • هنري سبنسر هو أمين الأرشيف ومبرمج ومهندس كندي، ولد في 1955. (ar)
  • Henry Spencer (born 1955) is a Canadian computer programmer and space enthusiast. He wrote "regex", a widely used software library for regular expressions, and co-wrote C News, a Usenet server program. He also wrote The Ten Commandments for C Programmers. He is coauthor, with David Lawrence, of the book Managing Usenet. While working at the University of Toronto he ran the first active Usenet site outside the U.S., starting in 1981. His records from that period were eventually acquired by Google to provide an archive of Usenet in the 1980s. The first international Usenet site was run in Ottawa, in 1981; however, it is generally not remembered, as it served merely as a read-only medium. Later in 1981, Spencer acquired a Usenet feed from Duke University, and brought "utzoo" online; the earliest public archives of Usenet date from May 1981 as a result. The small size of Usenet in its youthful days, and Spencer's early involvement, made him a well-recognised participant; this is commemorated in Vernor Vinge's 1992 novel A Fire Upon the Deep. The novel featured an interstellar communications medium remarkably similar to Usenet, down to the author including spurious message headers; one of the characters who appeared solely through postings to this was modeled on Spencer (and, slightly obliquely, named for him). He is also credited with the claim that "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." (en)
  • Henry Spencer é um programador e um escritor do Canadá. Ele escreveu a regex, uma biblioteca de expressões regulares amplamente usada. Entre diversas ferramentas que a utilizaram, incluem-se a Tcl e as primeiras versões de Perl, esta, que acabou servindo de inspiração para diversas outras ferramentas modernas. Henry também coescreveu o C News, um programa servidor da Usenet. Trabalhando na Universidade de Toronto, foi responsável pela existência da primeira Usenet ativa fora dos Estados Unidos, a partir de 1981. Os registros desse período foram adquiridos pela Google para fornecer um histórico da Usenet na década de 1980, um projeto lançado no fim de 2001. Como escritor, é o autor do livro The Ten Commandments for C Programmers, e, com David Lawrence, é coautor do livro Managing Usenet. Henry também é conhecido por ser um entusiasta do espaço, participando de alguns projetos espaciais canadenses. O asteróide foi nomeado em sua homenagem. (pt)
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  • هنري سبنسر هو أمين الأرشيف ومبرمج ومهندس كندي، ولد في 1955. (ar)
  • Henry Spencer (born 1955) is a Canadian computer programmer and space enthusiast. He wrote "regex", a widely used software library for regular expressions, and co-wrote C News, a Usenet server program. He also wrote The Ten Commandments for C Programmers. He is coauthor, with David Lawrence, of the book Managing Usenet. While working at the University of Toronto he ran the first active Usenet site outside the U.S., starting in 1981. His records from that period were eventually acquired by Google to provide an archive of Usenet in the 1980s. (en)
  • Henry Spencer é um programador e um escritor do Canadá. Ele escreveu a regex, uma biblioteca de expressões regulares amplamente usada. Entre diversas ferramentas que a utilizaram, incluem-se a Tcl e as primeiras versões de Perl, esta, que acabou servindo de inspiração para diversas outras ferramentas modernas. Como escritor, é o autor do livro The Ten Commandments for C Programmers, e, com David Lawrence, é coautor do livro Managing Usenet. Henry também é conhecido por ser um entusiasta do espaço, participando de alguns projetos espaciais canadenses. O asteróide foi nomeado em sua homenagem. (pt)
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  • هنري سبنسر (ar)
  • Henry Spencer (pt)
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