List of programmers

See also: List of computer scientists

A

• Clifford Adams - author of the UseModWiki wiki software
• Leonard Adleman - co-inventor of the RSA algorithm (the A in the name stands for Adleman), coined the term computer virus
• Eric Allman - sendmail, syslog
• Marc Andreessen - co-creator of Mosaic web browser, co-founder of Netscape
• Bill Atkinson - QuickDraw, HyperCard

B

• Donald Becker - Linux Ethernet drivers, Beowulf clustering
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee - inventor of the World Wide Web
• Brian Behlendorf - Apache
• Daniel J. Bernstein - djbdns, qmail
• Eric Bina - co-creator of Mosaic web browser
• David Bradley - coder on the IBM PC project team who wrote the Control-Alt-Delete keyboard handler, embedded in all PC-compatible operating systems
• Dan Bricklin - co-creator of VisiCalc, the first personal spreadsheet program
• Sergey Brin - co-creator of Google

C

• Steve Capps - co-creator of Macintosh and Newton
• John Carmack - first person shooters Doom, Quake
• Vinton Cerf - TCP/IP, NCP
• Steve Chamberlain - BFD, Cygwin
• Alan Cooper - Visual Basic
• Alan Cox - a developer of the Linux kernel
• Brad Cox - Objective-C
• Ward Cunningham - inventor of the WikiWiki concept
• Dave Cutler - architect of Windows NT, VMS

D

• James Duncan Davidson - creator of Tomcat, now part of the Jakarta Project
• L. Peter Deutsch - Ghostscript
• Edsger Dijkstra - ALGOL, Shortest Path First, 'GOTO considered harmful'

E

• Larry Ellison - co-creator of Oracle database, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
• Marc Ewing - creator of Red Hat Linux

F

• Jay Fenlason - original hack, GAS
• David Filo - co-creator of Yahoo!

G

• Bill Gates - Altair BASIC, Apple II BASIC, founded Microsoft
• John Gilmore - GDB
• James Gosling - Java, Gosling Emacs, NeWS
• Paul Graham - Yahoo! Store, On Lisp, ANSI Common Lisp
• Ralph Griswold - co-creator of SNOBOL and creator of Icon programming language.
• Andi Gutmans - co-creator of PHP programming language

H

• Cecil Hastings - wrote the classic Approximations for Digital Computers 1950s formulas for sin, cos, etc.
• Anders Hejlsberg -- Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C#
• Andy Hertzfeld - co-creator of Macintosh, co-founder of General Magic
• C. A. R. Hoare - first implementation of quicksort, Algol 60 compiler
• Grace Hopper - Navy Mark I computer, FLOW-MATIC (which heavily influenced COBOL)

I

• Miguel de Icaza - GNOME project leader

J

• Bo Jangeborg - ZX Spectrum games
• Steven C. Johnson - yacc
• Lynne Jolitz - 386BSD
• William Jolitz - 386BSD
• Bill Joy - BSD, vi; founded Sun Microsystems

K

• Mitch Kapor - Lotus 1-2-3, founded Lotus Development Corporation
• Stan Kelly-Bootle - Manchester Mark I, The Devil's DP Dictionary
• Brian Kernighan - AWK (co-author)
• Donald E. Knuth - TeX, CWEB, The Art of Computer Programming

L

• Rasmus Lerdorf - original creator of PHP
• Michael Lesk - Lex
• Ada Lovelace - First programmer (of Babbage Machines)

M

• Yukihiro Matsumoto - Ruby
• John McCarthy - Lisp
• Douglas McIlroy - Unix tools
• Kirk McKusick - BSD
• Bertrand Meyer - Eiffel, Object-oriented Software Construction, Design by contract
• Bob Miner - co-creator of Oracle database, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
• Jeff Minter - Psychedelic, and often llama-related video games
• Lou Montulli - creator of Lynx browser, cookies, the blink tag, server push and client pull, HTTP proxying, HTTPS over SSL, browser integration with animated GIFs, founding member of HTML working group at W3C
• Dave Moon - MacLisp, ZetaLisp
• Chuck Moore - Forth
• Urban Mueller - Brainfuck language

N

• Kristen Nygaard - SIMULA

O

• Ed Oates - co-creator of Oracle database, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
• Andrew and Philip Oliver, The Oliver Twins - Many ZX Spectrum games including Dizzy

P

• Larry Page - co-creator of Google
• Alexey Pajitnov - inventor of the game Tetris on the Electronica 60
• Charles Petzold - author of many Microsoft Windows programming books

Q

R

• Dennis Ritchie - C, Unix
• Ron Rivest - co-inventor of the RSA algorithm (the R in the name stands for Rivest)
• Mark Rochkind - SCCS, see SCM
• Guido van Rossum - Python

S

• Bill Schelter - GNU Maxima, GNU Common Lisp
• Adi Shamir - co-inventor of the RSA algorithm (the S in the name stands for Shamir)
• Cliff Shaw - IPL, the first AI language
• Charles Simonyi - Hungarian notation, Microsoft Word
• Henry Spencer - C-News,Regex
• Richard Stallman - Emacs, GCC, GDB, GNU
• Guy Steele - Common Lisp, Scheme
• Bjarne Stroustrup - C++
• Zeev Suraski - co-creator of PHP programming language
• Gerald Jay Sussman - Scheme
• Tim Sweeney - The Unreal engine, UnrealScript, ZZT

T

• Andrew Tanenbaum - Minix
• Avie Tevanian - author of the Mach kernel
• Ken Thompson - Unix, B (precursor of C), Bon programming language
• Michael Tiemann - GCC
• Linus Torvalds - original author of the Linux kernel
• Andrew Tridgell - Samba, Rsync

U

V

• Wietse Venema - Postfix, SATAN, TCP Wrapper
• Paul Vixie - BIND, Cron

W

• Larry Wall - warp, rn, patch, Perl
• Roberta and Ken Williams -- Sierra, King's Quest, graphic adventure game
• Niklaus Wirth - Pascal
• Don Woods - INTERCAL, Colossal Cave Adventure
• Steve Wozniak - Breakout, Apple Integer BASIC, founded Apple Computer (with Steve Jobs)

X

Y

• Jerry Yang - co-creator of Yahoo!

Z

• Egon Zakrajšek - pioneer of computer science in Slovenia, texbooks for Z-23 assembler, structran
• Jamie Zawinski - Lucid Emacs, Netscape, Mozilla, XScreensaver

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