Prominent People in the History of Programming Languages— * Joe Armstrong— creator of Erlang. * John Backus— inventor of Fortran. * Alan Cooper— developer of Visual Basic. * Edsger W. Dijkstra—developed the framework for structured programming. * James Gosling—developer of Oak, the precursor of Java. * Anders Hejlsberg— developer of Turbo Pascal, Delphi and C#. * Grace Hopper— developer of Flow-Matic, influencing COBOL. *Kenneth E. Iverson— developer of APL, and co- developer of J along with Roger Hui. * Bill Joy— inventor of vi, early author of BSD Unix, and originator of SunOS, which became Solaris. * Alan Kay— pioneering work on object-oriented programming, and originator of Smalltalk. * Brian Kernighan— co-author of the first book on the C programming language with Dennis Ritchie, coauthor of the AWK and AMPL programming languages. * Yukihiro Matsumoto— creator of Ruby. * John McCarthy— inventor of LISP. * Bertrand Meyer— inventor of Eiffel. * Robin Milner— inventor of ML, and sharing credit for Hindley–Milner polymorphic type inference. * John von Neumann— originator of the operating system concept. * Martin Odersky— creator of Scala, and previously a contributor to the design of Java. * Dennis Ritchie— inventor of C. Unix Operating System, Plan 9 Operating System. * Rochester— inventor of first assembler (IBM 701). * Guido van Rossum—creator of Python. * Bjarne Stroustrup— developer of C++. * Ken Thompson— inventor of B, Go Programming Language, Inferno Programming Language, and Unix Operating System co-author. * Larry Wall— creator of the Perl programming language (see Perl and Perl 6). * Niklaus Wirth— inventor of Pascal, Modula and Oberon. * Stephen Wolfram— creator of Mathematica.
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