L Peter Deutsch

L Peter Deutsch

American software developer and composer. Founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator of Ghostscript, a free software PostScript and PDF interpreter. Developed the definitive Smalltalk implementation that inspired Java just-in-time technology 15 or-so years later. At 17, wrote Basic PDP-1 LISP, the PDP-1 Lisp 1.5 implementation. Received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973, and has previously worked at Xerox PARC and Sun Microsystems. Inducted as a Fellow of the ACM in 1994.

The eight fallacies of distributed computing

The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing:

  1. The network is reliable.
  2. Latency is zero.
  3. Bandwidth is infinite.
  4. The network is secure.
  5. Topology doesn’t change.
  6. There is one administrator.
  7. Transport cost is zero.
  8. The network is homogeneous.

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