List of programming language researchers
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The following is list of researchers of programming language theory, design, implementation, and related areas.
- John Backus, leader of the team that developed FORTRAN, developer of BNF
- Friedrich L. Bauer, co-designer of ALGOL
- Kathleen Booth, designed and developed the first assembly language
- Gilad Bracha, designer of Newspeak, researcher in the area of reflection[1]
- Walter Bright, designer of D
- Alain Colmerauer, creator of Prolog
- Ole-Johan Dahl, co-inventor of Simula
- Brendan Eich, designer of JavaScript
- James Gosling, father of the Java programming language
- Ralph Griswold, designer of SNOBOL, SL5, and Icon
- Anders Hejlsberg, original author of Turbo Pascal, chief architect of C#
- Rich Hickey, designer of Clojure
- Grace Hopper, co-designer of COBOL
- Roberto Ierusalimschy, designer of Lua
- Simon Peyton Jones, lead developer of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler and major contributor to the design of the Haskell programming language
- Alan Kay, and Dan Ingalls, co-inventors of Smalltalk
- John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, designed and developed the first BASIC language
- Brian Kernighan, co-designer of AWK and AMPL
- Chris Lattner, designer of Swift
- Rasmus Lerdorf, father of PHP
- Xavier Leroy, chief designer of OCaml
- Yukihiro Matsumoto, designer of Ruby
- John McCarthy, designer of LISP
- Kristen Nygaard, co-inventor of Simula
- Martin Odersky, designer of Scala
- John Ousterhout, designer of Tcl
- Rob Pike, co-designer of Limbo and Go
- Cicely Popplewell, co-designer of software for Manchester Mark 1
- Dennis Ritchie, designer of C
- Matthias Felleisen, creator of Racket (programming language)
- Guido van Rossum, designer of Python
- Guy L. Steele, Jr., co-designer of Scheme and designer of Fortress
- Bjarne Stroustrup, designer of C++
- Gerald Jay Sussman, co-designer of Scheme
- Don Syme, creator of F#
- Ken Thompson, designer of B and co-designer of Go
- Larry Wall, designer of Perl
- Philip Wadler, co-designer of Haskell
- Niklaus Wirth, designer of Pascal, Modula-2, Oberon
- Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Language
See also
References
- ^ "Gilad Bracha and David Ungar. Mirrors: Design Principles for Meta-level Facilities of Object-Oriented Programming Languages" (PDF). bracha.org. Retrieved 7 May 2014.