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programmer for a definition.
- CliffordAdams: strn?, UseModWiki
- Tim Berners-Lee: HTTP, HTML, www (the first Web browser)
- Dan Bricklin: VisiCalc, Demo
- [John Carmack]?: Doom, Quake
- Alan Cox: Made significant improvements to Linux
- Ward Cunningham: WikiWiki
- [Dave Cutler]?: Windows NT, VMS
- Miguel de Icaza: GNOME
- Bill Gates: Altair BASIC, Apple II BASIC; founded Microsoft.
- [James Gosling]?: Java, [Gosling Emacs]?, NeWS?
- Grace Hopper: Navy Mark I computer
- Bill Joy: BSD, vi; founded Sun Microsystems
- [Mitch Kapor]?: Lotus 1-2-3; founded [Lotus Development Corporation]?
- Brian Kernighan:AWK (co-author)
- Donald E. Knuth: TeX, CWeb?, The Art of Computer Programming
- [John McCarthy]?: LISP
- [Bertrand Meyer]?: Eiffel, [Object-oriented Software Construction]?, [Design by contract]?
- Eric S. Raymond: fetchmail, [The Cathedral and the Bazaar]?
- Dennis Ritchie: C, Unix
- [Ken Thomson]?: Unix, C
- [Guido van Rossum]?: Python
- Richard Stallman: Emacs, GCC, GNU
- [Guy Steele]?: Common Lisp, Scheme
- Linus Torvalds: Originated the Linux kernel
- Andrew Tridgell: Samba, Rsync?
- Larry Wall: rn, patch, Perl
- Niklaus Wirth: Pascal
- Steve Wozniak: Breakout, Apple Integer BASIC; founded Apple Computer (with Steve Jobs)
- [Jamie Zawinski]?: Lucid Emacs, Netscape, Mozilla, XScreensaver?
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