Prominent People in The History of Programming Languages
- Joe Armstrong, creator of Erlang
- John Backus, inventor of Fortran.
- Alan Cooper, developer of Visual Basic.
- Edsger W. Dijkstra, developed the framework for structured programming.
- James Gosling, developer of Oak, the precursor of Java.
- Anders Hejlsberg, developer of Turbo Pascal, Delphi and C#.
- Grace Hopper, developer of Flow-Matic, influencing COBOL.
- Kenneth E. Iverson, developer of APL, and co-developer of J along with Roger Hui.
- Bill Joy, inventor of vi, early author of BSD Unix, and originator of SunOS, which became Solaris.
- Alan Kay, pioneering work on object-oriented programming, and originator of Smalltalk.
- Brian Kernighan, co-author of the first book on the C programming language with Dennis Ritchie, coauthor of the AWK and AMPL programming languages.
- Yukihiro Matsumoto, creator of Ruby
- John McCarthy, inventor of LISP.
- Bertrand Meyer, inventor of Eiffel.
- Robin Milner, inventor of ML, and sharing credit for Hindley–Milner polymorphic type inference.
- John von Neumann, originator of the operating system concept.
- Martin Odersky, creator of Scala, and previously a contributor to the design of Java
- Dennis Ritchie, inventor of C. Unix Operating System, Plan 9 Operating System.
- Nathaniel Rochester, inventor of first assembler (IBM 701)
- Guido van Rossum, creator of Python
- Bjarne Stroustrup, developer of C++.
- Ken Thompson, inventor of /B/, Go Programming Language, Inferno Programming Language, and Unix Operating System co-author.
- Larry Wall, creator of Perl and Perl 6
- Niklaus Wirth, inventor of Pascal, Modula and Oberon.
- Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica
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