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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.
See also: Game programmer , List of computer scientists Free Software authors
A - B - C - D-F - G-H - I-J - K-L - M - N-R - S - T-V - W-Z
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D-F James Duncan Davidson - creator of Tomcat , now part of the Jakarta Project L. Peter Deutsch - Ghostscript , Assembler for PDP-1, XDS-940 timesharing system, qed text editor original co-authorEdsger Dijkstra - contributions to ALGOL , Dijkstra's algorithm , Go To Statement Considered Harmful Les Earnest - author of the finger program Larry Ellison - co-creator of Oracle database , co-founder of Oracle Corporation Marc Ewing - creator of Red Hat Linux Stuart Feldman - creator of make , author of Fortran 77 compiler, part of original group that created UNIX Jay Fenlason - original hack , GAS David Filo - co-creator of Yahoo! Andrew Fluegelman - author PC-Talk communications software; he is considered one of the fathers of shareware Brian Fox - creator of Bash , Readline, GNU Finger, Meta-HTML Peter Fraser - FRED text editor Jim Fruchterman founder of Arkenstone (now part of Freedom Scientific ) created scanners for blind people
G-H Bill Gates - Altair BASIC , Apple II BASIC, co-founded Microsoft John Gilmore - GDB Adele Goldberg - co-inventor of SmalltalkJames Gosling - Java , Gosling Emacs , NeWS Bill Gosper - Macsyma , Lisp machine , hashlife , helped Donald Knuth on Vol.2 of The Art of Computer Programming (Semi-numerical algorithms)Paul Graham - Yahoo! Store, On Lisp, ANSI Common LispRichard Greenblatt - Lisp machine , Incompatible Timesharing System , MacHackRalph Griswold - co-creator of SNOBOL and creator of Icon programming language .Andi Gutmans - co-creator of PHP programming language Cecil Hastings - wrote the classic Approximations for Digital Computers 1950s formulas for sin , cos , etc. Anders Hejlsberg -- Turbo Pascal , Delphi , C# Ted Henter founder of Henter-Joyce (now part of Freedom Scientific ) creator of Jaws , voice software for blind peopleAndy Hertzfeld - co-creator of Macintosh , co-founder of General Magic, co-founder of Eazel C. A. R. Hoare - first implementation of quicksort , Algol 60 compilerGrace Hopper - Navy Mark I computer , FLOW-MATIC (which heavily influenced COBOL )
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M Yukihiro Matsumoto - Ruby John McCarthy - Lisp Craig McClanahan - original author of Jakarta Struts , architect of Tomcat Catalina servlet containerDouglas McIlroy - pipes and filters , concept of software componentry , Unix tools (spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, tr, etc.)Marshall 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 Bram Moolenaar - author of text-editor Vim David Moon - MacLisp , ZetaLisp Chuck Moore - Forth Urban Müller - Brainfuck languageMike Muuss - author of ping , network tool to detect hosts
N-R Col Needham - creator of the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)Peter Norton - programmer of the famous file manager program, Norton Commander Kristen Nygaard - SIMULA Ed Oates - co-creator of Oracle database , co-founder of Oracle Corporation Jarkko Oikarinen - creator of Internet Relay Chat (IRC)Andrew and Philip Oliver, The Oliver Twins - Many ZX Spectrum games including Dizzy Larry Page - co-creator of Google Tim Paterson - QDOS Alexey Pajitnov - inventor of the game Tetris on the Electronica 60 Charles Petzold - author of many Microsoft Windows programming books Rob Pike - co-creator of UTF-8 character encoding, creator of editor sam , part of creation of Plan 9 and Inferno operating systemsJef Raskin - started the Macintosh project in Apple Computer , designed Canon Cat computer, developed The Humane Environment programDennis Ritchie - C , Unix Ron Rivest - co-inventor of the RSA algorithm (the R in the name stands for Rivest)Mark Rochkind - SCCS, see SCM , SCM History Guido van Rossum - Python Eric Raymond - Open Source movement , author of fetchmail Steve Russell - First Lisp interpreter; original Spacewar graphic computer game.
S Bill Schelter - GNU Maxima , GNU Common LispKen Silverman - creator of Duke Nukem 3D 's graphics engineAdi Shamir - co-inventor of the RSA algorithm (the S in the name stands for Shamir)Cliff Shaw - IPL , the first AI languageCharles Simonyi - Hungarian notation , Microsoft Word Henry Spencer - C News , Regex Richard Stallman - Emacs , GCC , GDB , founder and pioneer of the GNU Project, terminal-independent I/O pioneer on ITS , Lisp machine manual (chineual)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
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W-Z Larry Wall - warp , rn , patch , Perl Bob Wallace - author PC-Write word processor; he is considered one of the fathers of shareware John Warnock - creator of PostScript Pei-Yuan Wei - author of Viola , one of the earliest graphical browsers Peter Weinberger - co-creator of AWK programming language (the W in the name stands for Weinberger) David Wheeler - co-inventor of the subroutine ; designer of WAKE ; co-designer of Tiny Encryption Algorithm , XTEA , Burrows-Wheeler transform. (see http://www.dwheeler.com/dwheeler.html); this refers to several David Wheelers in computingRoberta and Ken Williams -- Sierra , King's Quest , graphic adventure gameDave Winer – developed XML-RPC , Frontier scripting languageNiklaus Wirth - Pascal Don Woods - INTERCAL , Colossal Cave Adventure Steve Wozniak - Breakout , Apple Integer BASIC, founded Apple Computer (with Steve Jobs )Jerry Yang - co-creator of Yahoo! Egon Zakrajšek - pioneer of computer science in Slovenia , texbooks for Z-23 assembler , structranJamie Zawinski - Lucid Emacs , Netscape , Mozilla , XScreenSaver
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A programmer can be one who develops and maintains software on a large mainframe system or one who develops software primarily for use on personal computers. Programmers often have or project an image of individualist geekdom, resistance to suits (referring to both business suits and 'The Establishment'), controls and unionisation. Programmers are employed in almost every industry, but the largest concentrations are in computer systems design and related services and in software publishers, which includes firms that write and sell software.
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