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Leonard "Len" H. Tower Jr. (born June 17, 1949) is a computer programmer, most notable for being an original co-author of gcc and GNU diff. He is one of the founding board members of the Free Software Foundation.

Academic career
In 1971, Tower received a B.S. in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During that time he was Business Manager at The Tech, the student newspaper.

GNU project
As a member of the GNU project, Tower was a programmer who also did some administrative tasks; he managed mailing lists, newsgroups, and requests for information. For the GNU C compiler (now known as GNU Compiler Collection), he wrote register transfer language generator and definitions, and the VAX machine description. Tower was also one of the five creators of GNU diff, a file comparison utility. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Tower spoke at USENIX conferences as the official representative of the FSF.

League for Programming Freedom
Tower was an early member of the League for Programming Freedom. Through 1991, Tower was one of the organization's two most active speakers, along with Richard Stallman.