Editing David Korn (computer scientist) (section)

{{Short description|American computer programmer (born 1943)}}
{{Infobox person
| name        = David Korn
| image       = 
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|August 28, 1943}}
| birth_place = [[Brooklyn, New York]], U.S.
| alt         = David Korn in Faces of Open Source
| caption     = Korn in Faces of Open Source
| occupation  = Computer programmer
}}
'''David Gerard Korn''' (August 28, 1943<ref>{{cite web |date=October 1969 |title=NASA Notice for Handling Proposals: Numerical Design of Transonic Shockless Airfoils |url=https://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/historic/File:Notice-for-handling-proposals.pdf |department=[[Langley Research Center]] |website=Cultural Resources Geographical Information Systems |publisher=[[NASA]]}}</ref>) is an [[Americans|American]] UNIX [[computer programmer|programmer]] and the author of the [[Korn shell]] (''ksh''), a [[command line interface]]/[[programming language]].