[4] Alongside Victor Lazzarini and Steven Yi, he is the project leader for audio programming language Csound,[5] having a leading role in its development since the early 1990s; and he was a director of Codemist Ltd,[3] which developed the Norcroft C compiler.
[6][7][8][9][10] Born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England in December 1945,[3] Fitch was educated at St John's College, Cambridge where he gained a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1971 supervised by David Barton.
[1][11][12] Fitch spent six years at Cambridge as a postdoctoral researcher - winning the Adams Prize for Mathematics in 1975 for a joint essay with David Barton on Applications of algebraic manipulative systems to physics.
According to his biography, "despite his long hair and beard,[15] and the uncertain spelling of his name, [he] was never a hippie".
[16][17] His former doctoral students include James Davenport[1] and Tom Crick.