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Gordon Eubanks | |
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| Born | (1946-11-07)November 7, 1946 (age 79) |
| Alma mater | Oklahoma State University |
| Occupation | Computer programmer |
| Known for | BASIC-E,CBASIC |
| Spouse | Ronda Eubanks |
| Children | Keith Eubanks |
Gordon Edwin Eubanks, Jr.[1][2] (born November 7, 1946) is an Americanmicrocomputer industry pioneer who worked withGary Kildall in the early days ofDigital Research (DRI).
Eubanks attendedOklahoma State University, where he was involved as a member ofPi Kappa Alpha fraternity. Kildall was his graduate thesis advisor at theNaval Postgraduate School inMonterey, California.[1][3][4] Eubank's 1976 master's thesis was aBASIC languagecompiler calledBASIC-E designed for Kildall's newCP/Moperating system.[1][3][4] Over the next year and a half, Eubanks wrote the popularCBASIC compiler forIMSAI while he was still a naval officer.[4][3] Friends of Eubanks say he called it "CBASIC" because he wrote it while serving on a submarine (atsea). Other people say the name CBASIC referred to "commercial" basic,[4][3] because it incorporatedBCD mathematics which eliminatedMBASIC's rounding errors that were sometimes troublesome foraccounting.
In 1981, afterMicrosoft moved from programming languages into operating systems, Digital Research improved its position in programming languages by acquiring Eubanks's company,Compiler Systems.[2][4][3] Eubanks went to work at DRI, but he soon came to doubt the company's long-term prospects. In 1984, Eubanks joinedSymantec and from 1984 to 1986 he helped developQ & A, an integrated database and wordprocessor with natural language query. He went on to become president and CEO of Symantec, guiding it into thesoftware utility andanti-virus business.
He left in 1999 to become president and CEO ofOblix, a Silicon Valley company producing software for web security. Oblix was acquired byOracle in March 2005. Eubanks is a director ofConcur and joined the board of directors ofOakley Networks in February 2006.
Eubanks is a stamp collector. A specialist of thefirst stamps issued nationally in the United States between 1847 and 1861. For two collections he exhibited, he won theAmerican Philatelic Society's title of "champion of champions" in 2012 and 2014.[5]
Eubanks is married to Ronda Eubanks, and has a son, Keith, as of January 1995.
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