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This is a
list of
programmers
notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions.
Clifford Adams
- author of the
UseModWiki
wiki software
Eric Allman
-
sendmail
Bill Atkinson
-
Macintosh Finder
,
HyperCard
Donald Becker
-
Linux
Ethernet
drivers,
Beowulf
clustering
Tim Berners-Lee
- inventor of the
World Wide Web
Brian Behlendorf[?]
-
Apache
Dan Bricklin
- co-creator of
VisiCalc
, the first personal
spreadsheet
program
Steve Capps[?]
- co-creator of
Macintosh
and
Newton
John Carmack
-
first person shooters
Doom
,
Quake
Steve Chamberlain[?]
-
BFD[?]
,
Cygwin
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
L. Peter Deutsch[?]
-
Ghostscript
Edsger Dijkstra
- early programmer, later a computer scientist
Jay Fenlason[?]
- original
hack
,
GAS[?]
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[?]
Andy Hertzfeld[?]
- co-creator of
Macintosh
, co-founder of
General Magic[?]
Grace Hopper
-
Navy Mark I computer[?]
,
COBOL
Miguel de Icaza
-
GNOME
project leader
Bo Jangeborg
-
ZX Spectrum
games
Steven C. Johnson[?]
-
yacc
Lynne Jolitz[?]
-
386BSD
William Jolitz[?]
-
386BSD
Bill Joy
-
BSD
,
vi
; founded
Sun Microsystems
Mitch Kapor
-
Lotus 1-2-3
, founded
Lotus Development Corporation
Stan Kelly-Bootle
-
Manchester Mark I
,
The Devil's DP Dictionary[?]
Brian Kernighan
-
C
,
AWK
(co-author)
Donald E. Knuth
-
TeX
,
CWeb[?]
,
The Art of Computer Programming
Ada Lovelace
- First programmer (of
Babbage Machines[?]
)
Yukihiro Matsumoto
-
Ruby
John McCarthy
-
Lisp
Douglas McIlroy
-
Unix
tools
Kirk McKusick[?]
-
BSD
Bertrand Meyer[?]
-
Eiffel
,
Object-oriented Software Construction[?]
,
Design by contract
Jeff Minter
- Psychedelic, and often
llama
-related
video games
Dave Moon[?]
-
MacLisp
,
ZetaLisp[?]
Chuck Moore[?]
-
Forth
Urban Müller
-
Brainfuck
language
Kristen Nygaard
-
SIMULA
Eric S. Raymond
-
fetchmail
,
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Dennis Ritchie
-
C
,
Unix
Guido van Rossum
-
Python
Bill Schelter
-
GNU Maxima
,
GNU Common Lisp[?]
Henry Spencer
-
C-News
,
Regex
Richard Stallman
-
Emacs
,
GCC
,
GNU
Guy Steele[?]
-
Common Lisp
,
Scheme
Bjarne Stroustrup
-
C++
Gerald Jay Sussman
-
Scheme
Tim Sweeney[?]
-
The Unreal engine
,
UnrealScript
,
ZZT[?]
Andrew Tanenbaum
-
Minix
Avie Tevanian
- author of the
Mach kernel
Ken Thompson
-
Unix
,
B
(precursor of
C
)
Michael Tiemann[?]
-
GCC
Linus Torvalds
- original author of the
Linux
kernel
Andrew Tridgell
-
Samba
,
Rsync
Paul Vixie
-
BIND
Larry Wall
-
warp[?]
,
rn
,
patch
,
Perl
Niklaus Wirth
-
Pascal
Don Woods
-
INTERCAL
,
Colossal Cave Adventure
Steve Wozniak
-
Breakout[?]
,
Apple Integer BASIC[?]
, founded
Apple Computer
(with
Steve Jobs
)
Jamie Zawinski
-
Lucid Emacs
,
Netscape
,
Mozilla
,
XScreensaver[?]
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