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The person, company, organisation or the like responsible for the actual implementation of a programming language, as opposed to the high-level design (although in many cases these will be the same).
   
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x Adele Goldberg    
Adele Goldberg (born July 22, 1945) is a computer scientist who wrote or co-wrote books on the programming language Smalltalk-80. In the 1970s she worked for Xerox's PARC laboratory on the Xerox Alto. According to Adele, Steve Jobs demanded a...
x Xerox PARC PARC-logo-color Interlisp
PARC (Palo Alto Research Center, Inc.), formerly Xerox PARC, is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California with a distinguished reputation for its contributions to information technology. Founded in 1970 as a division of Xerox...
Mesa
Smalltalk
x Mike Levin   Lisp  
x Timothy P Hart   Lisp  
x Steve Russell Steve Russell-PDP-1-20070512 Lisp
Steve "Slug" Russell is a programmer and computer scientist most famous for creating Spacewar!, one of the earliest videogames, in 1961 with the fellow members of the Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT working on a DEC Digital PDP-1. While there is...
x Thinking Machines Tmc-cm2.gif C*
Thinking Machines Corporation was a supercomputer manufacturer founded in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1982 by W. Daniel "Danny" Hillis and Sheryl Handler to turn Hillis's doctoral work at MIT on massively parallel computing architectures into a...
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Paris
x Jeff Mincy   *Lisp  
x JP Massar   *Lisp  
x IBM IBM logo Fortran
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...
PL/I
REXX
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RPG programming language
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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  
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...
x Fergus Henderson   Mercury  
x Thomas Conway   Mercury  
x Zoltan Somogyi   Mercury
Dr. Zoltan Somogyi is a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne's department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, who currently leads the team responsible for the Mercury programming language. Aside from Mercury, Somogyi has also...
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 Ted Kaeler   Smalltalk  
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...
ABC
x Guillaume Laforge   Groovy
Guillaume Laforge is the Groovy project manager and also the spec lead of JSR-241 (the formal spcefication of the language).
x Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems Logo Fortress programming language
Sun Microsystems Inc., (NASDAQ: JAVA) provides network computing infrastructure solutions that include computer systems, software, storage, and services. Its core brands include the Java technology platform, the Solaris operating system, StorageTek...
Self
ECMAScript
x Cray Cray2 Chapel programming language
Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) is a supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington. The company's predecessor, Cray Research, Inc. (CRI), was founded in 1972 by computer designer Seymour Cray. Already a legend in his field by this time, Cray put...
x Nick Thompson Square-headshot.jpg mjt  
x Herbert Simon Herbert Simon, c. 2000 Information Processing Language
Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist, economist and psychologist whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, computer science, public administration, economics,...
x Peter Naur naur.JPG ALGOL 60
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...
x Ecma International   ECMAScript
Ecma International (Ecma) is an international, private (membership-based) non-profit standards organization for information and communication systems. It acquired its name in 1994, when the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) changed...
x Rich Hickey   Clojure
Rich Hickey is the creator of the Clojure programming language, a Lisp dialect built on top of the JVM. Before Clojure, he developed dotLisp, a similar project based on the .NET platform. Hickey is an independent software developer and a consultant...
x Object Management Group   Corba IDL
Object Management Group (OMG) is a consortium, originally aimed at setting standards for distributed object-oriented systems, and is now focused on modeling (programs, systems and business processes) and model-based standards. OMG provides only...
x Apple Inc. Apple, Inc Logo NewtonScript
Apple Inc., (NASDAQ: AAPL) formerly Apple Computer Inc., is an American multinational corporation which designs and manufactures consumer electronics and software products. The company's best-known hardware products include Macintosh computers, the...
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