Famous Programmers

See 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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