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This list is incomplete. This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to , either as original author or architect, or for later additions.

A • - Popularized Mode X for DOS. This allows for faster video refresh and square pixels. • Scott Adams - one of earliest developers of / and DOS games • - co-creator of RSA (the A in the name stands for Adleman), coined the term computer virus • - co-creator of AWK (the A in the name stands for Aho), and main author of famous Dragon book • JJ Allaire - creator of ColdFusion Application Server, ColdFusion Markup Language • - Altair BASIC, Applesoft BASIC, co-founded • - , syslog • - co-creator of , co-founder of • - QuickDraw, HyperCard

B • - , BNF • Richard Bartle - MUD, with Roy Trubshaw, creator of MUDs • Brian Behlendorf - Apache • - Created and co-creator of JUnit • Donald Becker - drivers, Beowulf clustering • Doug Bell - Dungeon Master series of computer games • - Creator of FFMPEG open library, QEMU tools • Tim Berners-Lee - inventor of • Daniel . Bernstein - , • - co-creator of Mosaic • - co-creator of • Joshua Bloch - core language designer, lead the Java collections framework project • Bert Bos - author of web browser, co-author of Cascading Style Sheets • David Bradley - coder on the IBM PC project team who wrote the Control-Alt-Delete keyboard handler, embedded in all PC-compatible BIOSes • Andrew Braybrook - video games and • Larry Breed - co-developer of APL\360 • Jack E. Bresenham - creator of Bresenham's line algorithm • - co-creator of , the first personal program • Walter Bright - Digital Mars, First ++ , author of (). • Richard Brodie - • - Co-creator of Unified • Stephen Bourne - Creator of • - Hack, former maintainer of man pager man(1) [1], hacker • (Dani Bunten) - M.U.L.E., multiplayer • Dries Buytaert - Creator of List of programmers 2

C • - co-creator of and Newton • John D. Carmack - first person shooters , Quake • Vinton Cerf - TCP/IP, NCP • - Wrote the first BBS () system CBBS • - BitTorrent protocol design and implementation • Alain Colmerauer - • - • - co-developer of Linux kernel • Brad Cox - Objective-C • - and NetRexx, LEXX editor, image processing, decimal arithmetic packages • Mark Crispin - creator of IMAP, author of UW-IMAP, one of reference implementations of IMAP4 • Pamela Crossley - creator of SIMPLE for academic management of web pages • - creator of concept • William Crowther - • Dave Cutler - architect of VMS, Windows NT

D • Ole-Johan Dahl - co-creator of • James Duncan Davidson - creator of Tomcat, now part of • L. Peter Deutsch - , Assembler for PDP-1, XDS-940 timesharing system, QED original co-author • Edsger Dijkstra - contributions to ALGOL, Dijkstra's algorithm, Goto Statement Considered Harmful • Matt Dillon - of various software including DICE and DragonflyBSD • Martin Dougiamas - creator and lead developer of • - author of , the lwIP and uIP embedded TCP/IP stacks, inventor of protothreads

E • Les Earnest - author of finger program • - creator of JavaScript • - co-creator of , co-founder of • - creator of Linux

F • Dan Farmer - Creator of COPS and SATAN Security Scanners • - creator of , author of Fortran 77 compiler, part of original group that created • David Filo - co-creator of Yahoo! • Brad Fitzpatrick - creator of , Livejournal and OpenID • Andrew Fluegelman - author PC-Talk communications software; considered a co-creator of • Brian Fox - creator of , Readline, GNU Finger, Meta-HTML • Jim Fruchterman - founder of Arkenstone (now part of Freedom Scientific) and Benetech, created scanners for blind people List of programmers 3

G • Elon Gasper - co-founded Bright Star Technology, patented realistic facial movements for in-game speech. HyperAnimator, Alphabet Blocks, etc. • - Altair BASIC, co-founded Microsoft • Steve Gibson - creator of SpinRite • John Gilmore - GDB • Adele Goldberg - co-creator of • Ryan C. Gordon (a..a. Icculus) - Lokigames, ioquake3, MojoSetup, etc. • - Java, Gosling , NeWS • - , Lisp machine, hashlife, helped on Vol.2 of The Art of (Semi-numerical ) • Andrew Gower - RuneScape Classic, RuneScape, co-founded • Paul Gower - RuneScape Classic, RuneScape, co-founded Jagex • - Yahoo! Store, , ANSI • John Graham-Cumming - author of POPFile, a Bayesian -based e- classifier • Ralph Griswold - co-creator of SNOBOL, creator of Icon (programming language) • Richard Greenblatt - Lisp machine, Incompatible Timesharing System, MacHack • , (a.k.a. ScottGu) - ASP.NET Creator • - co-creator of PHP programming language

H • Jim Hall - started the FreeDOS project • David Heinemeier Hansson - created the framework for developing web applications. • David Albert Huffman - created the Huffman Code compression algorithm. • - Author of Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate and . • - , , C# • Ted Henter - founder of Henter-Joyce (now part of Freedom Scientific) creator of Jaws, screen reader software for blind people • - co-creator of Macintosh, co-founder of , co-founder of • Rich Hickey - creator of language • D. Richard Hipp - creator of SQLite • C. A. . Hoare - first implementation of , ALGOL 60 compiler, Communicating sequential processes • James Holmes - Committer on Struts project, create of Struts Console • - computer, FLOW-MATIC, COBOL • - co-author of

I • - GNOME project leader, initiator of project • Roberto Ierusalimschy - Lua leading architect • - co-creator of Smalltalk and Bitblt • Geir Ivarsøy - co-creator of web browser • Ken Iverson - APL, J • Toru Iwatani - creator of Pac-Man List of programmers 4

J • Bo Jangeborg - Sinclair ZX Spectrum games • Paul Jardetzky - author of server program for the first webcam • - 386BSD • - 386BSD • Rod Johnson - creator of Spring framework • Stephen C. Johnson - • - BSD, csh, , co-founder of • Robert K. Jung - creator of ARJ

K • Poul-Henning Kamp - MD5 password hash algorithm, FreeBSD GEOM and GBDE, part of the UFS2, FreeBSD Jails, malloc and the license • - Lotus 1-2-3, founded Lotus Development Corporation • - creator of file format, author of PKZIP • - Smalltalk, , Object-oriented programming, • Mel Kaye - a real programmer[2] • John Kemeny - co-creator of BASIC • Stan Kelly-Bootle - , The Devil's DP Dictionary • - co-creator of AWK (the K in the name stands for Kernighan), author of ditroff text-formatting tool • - CP/M • Tom Knight - Incompatible Timesharing System • Jim Knopf - aka Jim Button, author PC-File flatfile database; considered a co-creator of shareware • Donald E. Knuth - TeX, CWEB, , The Art of Computer Programming,

L • Andre LaMothe- LaMothe is the creator of the XGameStation,one of the world's first video game console development kits • Tom Lane - primary author of , major developer of PostgreSQL • - LaTeX • - QED original co-author • Lantinga - creator of SDL • Dick Lathwell - co-developer of APL\360 • - primary author of Low Level project • Samuel J Leffler - BSD, FlexFAX, libtiff, FreeBSD Wireless Device Drivers • - original creator of PHP • Michael Lesk - • - Architect of OS/2, author of HPFS • Håkon Wium Lie - co-author of Cascading Style Sheets • - Linux kernel developer • - First programmer (of Charles Babbages' Analytical Engine) • - creator of series List of programmers 5

M • Raphael Manfredi - contributions to , software architect and maintainer of -gnutella • Khaled Mardam-Bey - Creator of mIRC ( Relay Chat ) • - Ruby • John McCarthy - Lisp • Craig McClanahan - original author of Jakarta Struts, architect of Tomcat Catalina servlet container • Daniel D. McCracken - professor at City College and author of Guide to Algol Programming, Guide to Cobol Programming, Guide to Fortran Programming (1957) • Douglas McIlroy - pipes and filters, concept of software componentry, Unix tools (, , , , , , , etc.) • Shawn McKenzie - AutoTheme • Marshall Kirk McKusick - BSD, work on FFS, implementor of • - Eiffel, Object-oriented Software Construction, • - co-creator of Oracle database, co-founder of Oracle Corporation • - Psychedelic, and often llama-related video game • - creator of browser, cookies, the blink tag, server push and client pull, HTTP proxying, HTTP over SSL, browser integration with animated GIFs, founding member of HTML working group at W3C • Bram Moolenaar - author of text-editor • David Moon - , ZetaLisp • Charles H. Moore - creator of Forth language • Roger Moore - co-developer of APL\360, creator of IPSANET, co-founder of I.P. Sharp Associates • - author of ping, network tool to detect hosts

N • - early Java designer, xlock, HotJava • - Backus-Naur form, ALGOL 60 • Col Needham - creator of Internet Movie Database (IMDb) • Graham Nelson - creator of Inform authoring system for • - programmer of famous file manager program, Norton Commander • - SIMULA

O • Oates - co-creator of Oracle database, co-founder of Oracle Corporation • Steve O'Donnell - founder of GOAL Systems, lead developer of WDU, , creater of independent DOS utilities, developer of Prompt • Jarkko Oikarinen - creator of (IRC) • Andrew and Philip Oliver, The Oliver Twins - Many Sinclair ZX Spectrum games including Dizzy • - creator of / • Mark Overmars - Professor, Well known for creation of Game Maker • Onel de Guzman - A Filipino Programmer who created the ILOVEYOU virus on May 4, 2000. List of programmers 6

P • - Co-founder of ,Inc • - creator of game on Electronica 60 • - Logo (programming language) • - author of 86-DOS (QDOS) • - key free and software architect, creator of • - author of many programming books • - Wrote first bitmapped window system for Unix, co-creator of UTF-8 character encoding, author of text editor sam and programming environment , main author of Plan 9 and Inferno operating systems • - technical contributor to the ANSI Common Lisp standard

R • - Founding member of NetBSD, founder of OpenBSD and OpenSSH • - started the Macintosh project in Apple Computer, designed computer, developed The Humane Environment program • Eric Raymond - Open Source movement, author of • - Creator of ReiserFS file system • - Creator and lead developer of jQuery JavaScript library • Craig Reynolds - Creator of boids simulation • - C, Unix, Plan 9 from , Inferno • - co-creator of RSA algorithm (the R in the name stands for Rivest) • - first person shooters Doom, Quake • - co-author of Mozilla Firefox • - Python • Jeff Rulifson - Lead programmer on the NLS project • - Creator of for linux • Steve Russell - First Lisp interpreter; original Spacewar! graphic computer game.

S • Bob Sabiston - Rotoshop, interpolating rotoscope animation software • Muni Sakya - Nepalese software • - , • - Developer of Roller Coaster Tycoon and the series • - GNU , GNU Common Lisp • Randal L. Schwartz - • - co-creator of RSA algorithm (the S in the name stands for Shamir) • Mike Shaver - Founding member of Mozilla Organization • Cliff Shaw - IPL, the first AI language • Zed Shaw - Wrote the Web Server, for Ruby web applications. • Emily Short - prolific writer of Interactive fiction and co-developer of Inform version 7 • Jacek Sieka - Developer of ++ an open-source, peer-to-peer file-sharing client • - creator of 's graphics engine • - , Microsoft Word • Colin Simpson - developer of CircuitLogix simulation software • - co-founder of Open Directory Project • Matthew Smith - Sinclair ZX Spectrum games, including and List of programmers 7

• - C News, Regex • Quentin Stafford-Fraser - author of original VNC viewer, first Windows VNC server, client program for the first webcam • - Emacs, GCC, GDB, founder and pioneer of GNU Project, terminal-independent I/O pioneer on ITS, Lisp machine manual (chineual) • Guy Steele - Common Lisp, Scheme • - creator of Standard Template Library • - C++ • - co-creator of PHP language • - Scheme • Tim Sweeney - The , UnrealScript, ZZT

T • Andrew Tanenbaum - • Audrey "Autrijus" Tang - designer of • - NASM, PuTTY • - the PUB markup language, the Smalltalk code browser, and object inspector, and (with Tim Mott) the word processor • Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner - co-creator of Opera web browser • - author of kernel • - main designer and author of Unix, Plan 9 and Inferno operating systems, and Bon languages (precursors of C), creator of UTF-8 character encoding, introduced regular expressions in QED. • - G++, GCC • - original author and current maintainer of Linux kernel and creator of , a management system • Leonard H. Tower Jr. - GCC & GNU diff • Michael Toy - co-developer of computer game Rogue • Andrew Tridgell - , • Roy Trubshaw - MUD - together with Richard Bartle, creator of MUDs • Bob Truel - co-founder of Open Directory Project

V • Wietse Venema - , SATAN, TCP Wrapper • - BIND, • - Original author and the current maintainer of

W • - Warp (1980s space-war game), rn, , Perl • - author PC-Write word processor; considered a co-creator of shareware • John Walker - co-founder of • John Warnock - creator of PostScript • Robert Watson - FreeBSD network stack parallelism, TrustedBSD project and OpenBSM • Pei-Yuan Wei - author of Viola, one of earliest graphical browsers • Peter J. Weinberger - co-creator of AWK (the W in the name stands for Weinberger) • Andrew Welch - author of Maelstrom, Snapz Pro; founder of Ambrosia Software List of programmers 8

• David Wheeler - co-creator of ; designer of WAKE; co-designer of Tiny Encryption Algorithm, XTEA, Burrows-Wheeler transform. • Arthur Whitney - A+, K • Bruce Wilcox - creator of Computer Go, programmed NEMESIS Go Master. • Evan Williams Creator and co-founder of • Roberta and Ken Williams -- , King's , graphic • Sophie Wilson - Designer of instruction set for Acorn RISC Machine, author of BBC BASIC. • - developed XML-RPC, Frontier scripting language • - Pascal, Modula-2, Oberon • - creator of Mathematica • - INTERCAL, Colossal Cave Adventure • - Breakout, Apple Integer BASIC, co-founder of Apple Inc. • Will Wright - Created the Sim City series and co-founded Maxis

Y • - co-creator of Yahoo! • Victor Yngve - author of first string processing language, COMIT

Z • - Lucid Emacs, Netscape, Mozilla, XScreenSaver • Philip Zimmermann - creator of encryption software PGP, the ZRTP protocol, and • - Creator of The

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[1] http:/ / linux. die. net/ man/ 1/ man

[2] The Story of Mel (http:/ / info. astrian. net/ jargon/ Hacker_Folklore/ The_Story_of_Mel. htm) Article Sources and Contributors 9 Article Sources and Contributors

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