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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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