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Line 1: − + − + − After graduating from Georgia Tech, Hipp worked at [[AT&T]] for three years before returning to graduate school at [[Duke University]] to study under Alan W. Biermann in the Department of Computer Science. He took the degree of [[Doctor of Philosophy]] from Duke in 1992 and finding the academic market for PhDs saturated with what he believed to be better qualified candidates, started his own software development consulting company.<ref name=changelog>{{Cite web|url=https://changelog.com/podcast/201|title=#201: SQLite with Richard Hipp - The Changelog|date=2016-04-29|website=The Changelog|language=en-US|access-date=2016-05-03}}</ref> He designed SQLite in the spring of 2000 while working for [[General Dynamics]] on contract with the [[United States Navy]].+ − + + + +
Overhauled article. The previous version was heavily copied from Wikipedia. This version is entirely my own work. (I had not seen the rule about that.) So sorry.
'''Dwayne Richard Hipp''' (born April 9, 1961) is a software developer and the primary author of [[SQLite]] as well as the Fossil SCM.He also authored the Lemon parser generator, and CVSTrac; the latter became the inspiration for Trac. He was also a member of the Tcl core team.
'''D. Richard Hipp''' is a software developer and the primary author of [[SQLite]].<ref>https://sqlite.org/crew.html</ref>
== Life and career ==
== Life and career ==
Hipp was born in [[Charlotte, North Carolina]] on April 9, 1961 but grew up in the suburbs of [[Atlanta, Georgia]]. He graduated from Stone Mountain High School in 1979 and enrolled at [[Georgia Institute of Technology|Georgia Tech]]. He graduated from Georgia Tech in 1984 with Master of Science in Electrical Engineering.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2004/view/e_spkr/1869|title=O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2004 - Speaker|year=2004|publisher=[[O'Reilly Media|O'Reilly]]}}</ref>
Hipp earned a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from [[Georgia Tech]] in 1984. He went on to earn a PhD in Computer Science from [[Duke University]] in 1992.
Hipp lives in [[Charlotte, North Carolina]] with his wife, Ginger.<ref>http://www.hwaci.com/drh/</ref>
He married Ginger G. Wyrick on April 16, 1994, changed the name of his company to Hipp, Wyrick & Company, Inc, and signed all stock over to Wyrick.<ref name=changelog/> He and his wife moved to their present home in Charlotte, North Carolina in August 1995.
== SQLite: The Most Deployed Database In The World ==
In the year 2000, Hipp worked as a Navy contractor. He designed SQLite during this time.<ref>https://medium.com/linode-cube/sqlite-the-universal-sql-database-engine-a26199c366fc</ref>
SQLite is the most deployed database in the world. It is part of nearly every modern smartphone. It is a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine. Its code has been released into the public domain. Its developers plan to support the project through the year 2050. <ref>https://sqlite.org/about.html</ref>
== Christian Advocacy ==
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