Lorinda Cherry

By admin , 16 March 2026
Lorinda
Cherry
Female
Description

A longtime member of the original Unix Lab at Bell Labs, Cherry devoted much of her career to developing mathematical tools and utilities for text formatting and analysis, and influenced the creation of others. Her work as a programmer and computer scientist left a lasting mark on the Unix computing environment.

Unix Mathematical Tools Developer
Lorinda Cherry
she/her

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