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The person, company, organisation or the like responsible for the high-level design of a programming language.
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x Bjarne Stroustrup BjarneStroustrup C++
Bjarne Stroustrup (Danish pronunciation: [ˈbjɑːnə ˈsdʁʌʊ̯ˀsdʁɔb]; born December 30, 1950 in Århus, Denmark) is a computer scientist most notable for developing the C++ programming language. He is currently Professor and holder of the College of...
x Dennis Ritchie Dennis Ritchie C
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (username: dmr, born September 9, 1941) is an American computer scientist notable for his influence on C and other programming languages, and on operating systems such as Multics and Unix. He received the Turing Award in...
Limbo programming language
x Kenneth E. Iverson ken_iverson.jpg APL
Kenneth Eugene Iverson (17 December 1920 - 19 October 2004) was a Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the APL programming language in 1962. He was honored with the Turing Award in 1979 for his contributions to mathematical...
J
x Bertrand Meyer Bertrand Meyer Eiffel
Bertrand Meyer (born 1950 in France) is an academic, author, and consultant in the field of computer languages. He created the Eiffel programming language. Bertrand Meyer received the equivalent of a bachelor's degree in engineering from the École...
x Microsoft 800px-Microsoft_sign_closeup.jpg Visual Basic
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKEX: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington,...
C#
J#
Applesoft BASIC
Visual Basic .NET
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x Alan Kay Alan Kay during an interview Smalltalk
Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design. He is the president of the Viewpoints Research Institute, and an...
Squeak
EToys
x Wally Feurzeig   ALGOL
Wally Feurzeig is an inventor of the LOGO programming language, and a well-known researcher in Artificial Intelligence. During the early 1960s, BBN had become a major center of computer science research and innovative applications. Wally Feurzeig...
Logo
x Peter Naur naur.JPG ALGOL
Peter Naur (born October 25, 1928) is a Danish pioneer in computer science and Turing award winner. His last name is the N in the BNF notation (Backus-Naur form), used in the description of the syntax for most programming languages. He contributed...
ALGOL 60
x John Backus John Backus FP
For the physicist, see John Backus (acoustician) John Warner Backus (December 3, 1924 – March 17, 2007) was an American computer scientist. He directed the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language (FORTRAN) and was...
ALGOL
Fortran
FL
ALGOL 58
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x Niklaus Wirth Niklaus Wirth giving a lecture Modula
Niklaus Emil Wirth (born February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984 he won the Turing Award...
Modula-2
Oberon
Pascal
ALGOL W
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x John McCarthy John McCarthy Stanford Lisp
John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts), is an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist who received the Turing Award in 1971 for his major contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). He was...
ALGOL
x Cliff Lasser Cliff lasser.jpg *Lisp  
x Steve Omohundro   *Lisp  
x IBM IBM logo PL/I
International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM, is a multinational computer technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, Town of North Castle, New York, United States. The company is one of the few information...
Fortran
REXX
X10
AS/400 Control Language
x Edward Wimmers   FL  
x John Williams   FL  
x Yukihiro Matsumoto Yukihiro Matsumoto Ruby
He was born in Osaka Prefecture, in western Honshū. According to an interview conducted by Japan Inc., he was a self-taught programmer until the end of high school. He graduated with an information science degree from Tsukuba University, where...
x Norman I. Adams   T  
x Jonathan A. Rees Jonathan A. Rees T  
Scheme48
x Short Range Committee   COBOL  
x Bob Bemer   COMTRAN
Robert William Bemer (February 8, 1920 – June 22, 2004) was a computer scientist best known for his work at IBM during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Born in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Bemer graduated from Cranbrook School in 1936 and took an A.B....
x Grace Hopper GraceHopper FLOW-MATIC
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Naval officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and she developed...
COBOL
x Robert Kowalski   Prolog
Robert "Bob" Anthony Kowalski (born May 15, 1941, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA) is a logician and computer scientist, of Polish descent, who has spent most of his career in the United Kingdom. He was educated at the University of Chicago,...
x Alain Colmerauer   Prolog
Alain Colmerauer (born 24 January 1941) is a French computer scientist. After completing his Ph.D. at the University of Grenoble, he spent 1967–1970 as Assistant Professor at the University of Montreal, where he created Q-Systems, one of the...
x Ericsson Ericsson Erlang
Ericsson (Telefonaktiebolaget L. M. Ericsson) (OMX: ERIC B, NASDAQ: ERIC), one of the largest Swedish companies, is a leading provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services covering a range of technologies,...
x Guido van Rossum Guido van Rossum Python
Guido van Rossum (born 31 January 1960) is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. In the Python community, Van Rossum is known as a “Benevolent Dictator for Life” (BDFL), meaning that he...
Python for S60
x Arthur G. Snapper   SKED  
x Charles H. Moore ChuckMoore Forth
Charles H. Moore (also known as Chuck Moore) (born 1938) is the inventor of the Forth programming language. In 1968, while employed at the United States National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Moore invented the initial version of the Forth...
ColorForth
x John George Kemeny   BASIC
John George Kemeny (Hungarian: Kemény János György) (May 31, 1926, Budapest–December 26, 1992, New Hampshire), was a Hungarian-American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator best known for co-developing the BASIC programming language in...
Dartmouth BASIC
x Thomas Eugene Kurtz   BASIC
Thomas Eugene Kurtz (born February 22, 1928) is an American computer scientist who co-developed the BASIC programming language in 1963/64 together with John George Kemeny. In 1951, Dr. Kurtz’s first experience with computing came at the Summer...
Dartmouth BASIC
x Guy Steele Steele.jpg Scheme
Guy Steele is a Sun Fellow for Sun Microsystems Laboratories, working on the Programming Language Research project. His research interests include algorithms, compiler design, distributed systems, floating-point arithmetic, Fortress, functional...
Common Lisp
Fortress programming language
x Scott Fahlman   Common Lisp  
x David Moon   Common Lisp
David A. Moon is a programmer and computer scientist, known for his work on the Lisp programming language and related topics.
x Daniel Weinreb   Common Lisp  
x Nick Thompson Square-headshot.jpg mjt  
x Rasmus Lerdorf Lerdorf PHP
Rasmus Lerdorf (born November 22, 1968 in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland) is a Danish-Greenlandic programmer and is most notable as the creator of the PHP programming language. He authored the first two versions. Lerdorf also participated in the...
x Walter Bright WalterBright D
Walter Bright is a computer programmer known for being the designer of the D programming language. He was also the main developer of the first native C++ compiler, Zortech C++ (later to become Symantec C++, now Digital Mars C++). Before the C++...
x Donald D. Chamberlin   SQL
Donald D. Chamberlin (born in 1944) is an American computer scientist who is best known as one of the principal designers of the original SQL language specification with Raymond Boyce. He also made significant contributions to the development of...
x Raymond F. Boyce   SQL  
x James Gosling 4224 Java
James A. Gosling, O.C., Ph.D. (born May 19, 1955 near Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a software developer, best known as the father of the Java programming language. In 1977, James Gosling received a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of...
x Fredrik Hübinette   Pike  
x Lars Pensjö   LPC
Lars Pensjö of Sweden is the original author of the LPMud MUD engine and one of the founders of Genesis LPMud, notable for their part in the history of MMORPGs as well as the Pike programming language . He attended Chalmers University of Technology...
x Mike Cowlishaw Mike Cowlishaw 2005 REXX
Mike Cowlishaw is an IBM Fellow based at IBM UK’s Warwick location, a Visiting Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick, and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (roughly the equivalent of the NAE in the...
x Ron Gilbert Ron Gilbert looking grumpy SCUMM
Ron Gilbert is an American computer game designer, programmer, and producer, best known for his work on several classic LucasArts adventure games, including Maniac Mansion and the first two Monkey Island games. Gilbert was also co-founder of...
x ARTech   GeneXus
Company Background ARTech’s Mission & Beliefs
x Simon Peyton Jones Simon Peyton Jones 01 Haskell
Simon Peyton Jones (born in South Africa on January 18, 1958 ) is a British computer scientist who researches the implementation and applications of functional programming languages, particularly lazy functional languages. He is an honorary...
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x Leo Geurts   ABC  
x Lambert Meertens   ABC
Lambert Meertens (born 1944) is a Dutch computer scientist and professor. In the 1960s, Meertens applied affix grammars to the description and composition of music, and obtained a special prize from the jury at the 1968 IFIP Congress in Edinburgh...
x Steven Pemberton Steven ABC
Steven Pemberton (born February 19, 1953) is one of the developers of the ABC programming language and of the Views system. He is chair of the W3C XHTML2 and XForms Working Groups and also member of RDFa Taskforce. Pemberton was editor-in-chief of...
x Larry Wall Larry wall Perl
Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in 1987. Wall earned his bachelor's degree from Seattle Pacific University in 1976. While in graduate school at UC...
Perl 6
x Gerald Jay Sussman Jerry Sussman Scheme
Gerald Jay Sussman (August 9, 1947) is the Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his S.B. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from MIT in 1968 and 1973 respectively. He has been...
MDL programming language
x Anders Hejlsberg The C# Programming Language, Second Edition C#
Anders Hejlsberg (born December 1960) is a prominent Danish software engineer who co-designed several popular and commercially successful programming languages and development tools. He was the original author of Turbo Pascal, the chief architect of...
Object Pascal
x Xavier Leroy   Objective Caml
Xavier Leroy (born March 15, 1968) is a French computer scientist and programmer. He is best known for his role as a primary developer of the Objective Caml system. He is senior scientist (directeur de recherche) at the French government research...
x Robin Milner milner.gif ML
Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner FRS FRSE (Robin Milner or A.J.R.G. Milner, born 13 January 1934 near Plymouth) is a prominent British computer scientist. Milner was born in Yealmpton, near Plymouth, England into a military family. He was awarded a...
x Damien Doligez   Objective Caml
Damien Doligez is a French academic and programmer. He is best known for his role as a developer of the Objective Caml system, especially its garbage collector. He is research scientist (chargé de recherche) at the French government research...
x Didier Rémy   Objective Caml  
x Jérôme Vouillon   Objective Caml  
x Brendan Eich Eich.jpg JavaScript
Brendan Eich (pronounced /ˈаɪk/) (born 1961) is a computer programmer and creator of the JavaScript programming language. He is the Chief Technology Officer at the Mozilla Corporation. Brendan Eich received his bachelor's degree in math and computer...
ECMAScript
x Linden Lab Linden_lab_logo-716839.jpg Linden Scripting Language
Linden Lab was founded in 1999 by Philip Rosedale to create a revolutionary new form of shared experience, where individuals jointly inhabit a 3D landscape and build the world around them. Today this experience, known as Second...
x Roberto Ierusalimschy   Lua
Roberto Ierusalimschy is an associate professor of informatics at PUC-Rio (Pontifical University in Rio de Janeiro). He is the leading architect of the Lua programming language and the author of Programming in Lua (ISBN 85-903798-1-7) and...
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