Wouter van Oortmerssen, also known as Aardappel (...), is a Dutch programmer.
It is also known in video game programming as well as as a programming language creator. He graduated in Computational Linguistics from the University of Amsterdam and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southampton. He is currently a professor of software engineering at the Guildhall of Southern Methodist University.
In the video game field he worked in the creation of Far Cry and is also the creator of open source Cube and Sauerbraten graphic motors. Van Oortmerssen also created PanQuake and Fisheye Quake based both on Quake code, and WadC, a language for creating levels for Doom.
Among its programming languages are Amiga E and FALSE, which have contributed to the esoteric programming languages (which, among other things, inspired the famous brainfuck and Befunge).
Wouter also loves to give strange names to the programming languages that he creates. Links externalize the wikitesto
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