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Programming Languages — people field

141 persons in the programming languages field.

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Familyprogramming languages 140operating systems 29theory 26computing 17networking 10databases 7Hardware 6Artificial intelligence 2Business 2Search 2ai 2web 2Computer graphics 1Cryptography 1
StatusAliveMaintenanceDormantDeadLostSuperseded
NameLifeStatusFieldKnown for
Adam Lindsay—Aliveprogramming languagesLOLCODE
Alan Cooper—Aliveprogramming languagesVisual Basic
Alex Medvednikov—Aliveprogramming languagesV
Andreas Rumpf—Aliveprogramming languagesNim
Andrew Kelley—Aliveprogramming languagesZig
Arthur Whitney—Aliveprogramming languagesK
Ary Borenszweig—Aliveprogramming languagesCrystal
Ben Olmstead—Aliveprogramming languagesMalbolge
Bill HallgingerBill—Aliveprogramming languagesOdin
Chandler Carruth—Aliveprogramming languagesCarbon
Chris Lattner—Aliveprogramming languagesSwift Mojo
Chris Pressey—Aliveprogramming languagesBefunge
David Madore—Aliveprogramming languagesUnlambda
David May—Aliveprogramming languagesoccam
David Morgan-Mar—Aliveprogramming languagesPiet
David Ungar—Aliveprogramming languagesSelf
Don Syme—Aliveprogramming languagesF#
Drew DeVault—Aliveprogramming languagesHare
Edwin Brady—Aliveprogramming languagesWhitespace Idris
Evan Czaplicki—Aliveprogramming languagesElm
Fredrik Hübinette—Aliveprogramming languagesPike
Gert Smolka—Aliveprogramming languagesOz
James Strachan—Aliveprogramming languagesGroovy
Jeff Bezanson—Aliveprogramming languagesJulia
Jeffrey Snover—Aliveprogramming languagesPowerShell
José Valim—Aliveprogramming languagesElixir
Juan Linietsky—Aliveprogramming languagesGDScript
Jules Schwartz—Deadprogramming languagesJOVIAL
Jürg Billeter—Aliveprogramming languagesVala
Kasper Lund—Aliveprogramming languagesDart
Lars Bak—Aliveprogramming languagesDart
Leo Geurts—Aliveprogramming languagesABC
Leonardo de Moura—Aliveprogramming languagesLean
Louis Pilfold—Aliveprogramming languagesGleam
Luca Cardelli—Aliveprogramming languagesModula-3
Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo—Aliveprogramming languagesLua
Manfred von Thun—Aliveprogramming languagesJoy
Mike Cowlishaw—Aliveprogramming languagesREXX
Neil Pappalardo—Aliveprogramming languagesMUMPS
Nenad Rakočević—Aliveprogramming languagesRed
Nicolas Cannasse—Aliveprogramming languagesHaxe
Paul Falstad—Aliveprogramming languagesZ shell
Randall B. Smith—Aliveprogramming languagesSelf
Rich Hickey—Aliveprogramming languagesClojure
Robert Virding—Aliveprogramming languagesErlang
Rocky L. Oliver—Aliveprogramming languagesAdaLog MALBR RockyBASIC AdaLogic BASIC
Slava Pestov—Aliveprogramming languagesFactor
Stefan Karpinski—Aliveprogramming languagesJulia
Steve Dekorte—Aliveprogramming languagesIo
Sylvan Clebsch—Aliveprogramming languagesPony
Ulf Norell—Aliveprogramming languagesAgda
Urban Müller—Aliveprogramming languagesBrainfuck
Viral Shah—Aliveprogramming languagesJulia
Waldemar Celes—Aliveprogramming languagesLua
Wayne Ratliff—Aliveprogramming languagesdBase
Zoltan Somogyi—Aliveprogramming languagesMercury
Grace HopperAmazing Grace1906–1992Deadprogramming languagesA-0 System FLOW-MATIC COBOL
Adriaan van Wijngaarden1916–1987Deadprogramming languagesALGOL 68
Christopher Strachey1916–1975Deadprogramming languagesCPL Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages
Kenneth E. Iverson1920–2004Deadprogramming languagesAPL J
Alan Perlis1922–1990Deadprogramming languages—
J. C. ShawCliff Shaw1922–1991Deadprogramming languagesJOSS
John Backus1924–2007Deadprogramming languagesFORTRAN ALGOL 60 FP Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?
Alick Glennie1925–2003Deadprogramming languagesAutocode
Tony BrookerRalph Anthony Brooker1925–2019Deadprogramming languages—
John G. Kemeny1926–1992Deadprogramming languagesDartmouth BASIC
Kristen Nygaard1926–2002Deadprogramming languagesSimula
David Wheeler1927–2004Deadprogramming languages—
John McCarthy1927–2011Deadprogramming languagesLISP Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions
Wally Feurzeig1927–2013Deadprogramming languagesLogo
Jean Sammet1928–2017Deadprogramming languages—
Peter Naur1928–2016Deadprogramming languages—
Seymour Papert1928–2016Deadprogramming languagesLogo
Thomas E. Kurtz1928–2024Deadprogramming languagesDartmouth BASIC
Peter Landin1930–2009DeadProgramming languagesThe Next 700 Programming Languages
Ole-Johan Dahl1931–2001Deadprogramming languagesSimula
Frances Allen1932–2020Deadprogramming languages—
Niklaus Wirth1934–2024Deadprogramming languagesALGOL W Pascal Modula Modula-2 Oberon
Ralph Griswold1934–2006Deadprogramming languagesSNOBOL Icon
Robin Milner1934–2010Deadprogramming languagesML Standard ML
Cynthia Solomon1935–Aliveprogramming languagesLogo
Charles H. MooreChuck Moore1938–Aliveprogramming languagesFairchild Semiconductor Intel Forth
Per Brinch Hansen1938–2007Deadprogramming languages—
Barbara Liskov1939–Aliveprogramming languagesCLU
Charles GeschkeChuck Geschke1939–2021Deadprogramming languagesPostScript
Cleve Moler1939–Aliveprogramming languagesMATLAB
William Wulf1939–2023Deadprogramming languagesBLISS
Alan Kay1940–Aliveprogramming languagesSmalltalk A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages The Early History of Smalltalk
Elizabeth Rather1940–Aliveprogramming languages—
Jean Ichbiah1940–2007Deadprogramming languagesAda
John Warnock1940–2023Deadprogramming languagesAdobe Systems PostScript
Martin Richards1940–Aliveprogramming languagesBCPL
Alain Colmerauer1941–2017Deadprogramming languagesProlog
Alfred Aho1941–Aliveprogramming languagesAWK
Dennis Ritchie1941–2011Deadprogramming languagesB C The UNIX Time-Sharing System The Development of the C Language
John M. Chambers1941–Aliveprogramming languagesS
Robert Kowalski1941–Aliveprogramming languages—
Brian Kernighan1942–Aliveprogramming languagesAWK
Peter Weinberger1942–Aliveprogramming languagesAWK
David Korn1943–Aliveprogramming languagesKornShell
Brad Cox1944–2021Deadprogramming languagesObjective-C
Dan Ingalls1944–Aliveprogramming languagesSmalltalk
P. J. Plauger1944–Aliveprogramming languages—
Stephen Bourne1944–Aliveprogramming languagesBourne shell
Adele Goldberg1945–Aliveprogramming languagesSmalltalk
Philippe Roussel1945–Aliveprogramming languagesProlog
David Turner1946–Aliveprogramming languagesMiranda
L. Peter Deutsch1946–Aliveprogramming languages—
David H. D. Warren1947–Aliveprogramming languages—
Gerald Jay Sussman1947–Aliveprogramming languagesScheme Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative
Hal AbelsonHarold Abelson1947–Aliveprogramming languages—
Richard P. Gabriel1949–Aliveprogramming languagesLisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big
Bertrand Meyer1950–Aliveprogramming languagesEiffel
Bjarne Stroustrup1950–Aliveprogramming languagesC++
Joe Armstrong1950–2019Deadprogramming languagesErlang
Phil Moorby1953–2022Deadprogramming languagesVerilog
Roger Hui1953–2021Deadprogramming languagesJ
Guy L. Steele Jr.1954–Aliveprogramming languagesScheme Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative Fortress
John Ousterhout1954–Aliveprogramming languagesTcl
Larry Wall1954–Aliveprogramming languagesPerl Raku
Ross Ihaka1954–Aliveprogramming languagesR
James Gosling1955–Aliveprogramming languagesJava
Guido van Rossum1956–Aliveprogramming languagesPython
Mitchel ResnickMitch Resnick1956–Aliveprogramming languagesScratch
Carl Sassenrath1957–Aliveprogramming languagesAmigaOS REBOL
Martin Odersky1958–Aliveprogramming languagesScala
Brian Fox1959–Aliveprogramming languagesBash
Robert Gentleman1959–Aliveprogramming languagesR
Stephen Wolfram1959–Aliveprogramming languagesWolfram Language
Walter Bright1959–Aliveprogramming languagesD
Anders Hejlsberg1960–Aliveprogramming languagesDelphi C# TypeScript
Gilad Bracha1960–Aliveprogramming languages—
Roberto Ierusalimschy1960–Aliveprogramming languagesLua
Brendan Eich1961–Aliveprogramming languagesJavaScript
Thierry Coquand1961–Aliveprogramming languagesRocq
Alan Edelman1963–Aliveprogramming languagesJulia
Urs Hölzle1964–Aliveprogramming languages—
Yukihiro MatsumotoMatz1965–Aliveprogramming languagesRuby
Rasmus Lerdorf1968–Aliveprogramming languagesPHP
Xavier Leroy1968–Aliveprogramming languagesOCaml
Gavin Wood1980–Aliveprogramming languagesSolidity