Programming languages
People tagged with Programming languages.
18 profiles
Technology
Yukihiro Matsumoto
Japanese programmer who created the Ruby programming language
Born 1965
Technology
James Gosling
Canadian computer scientist known as the father of Java
Born 1955
Technology
Larry Wall
Linguist-programmer who created the Perl programming language
Born 1954
Science
Kenneth E. Iverson
Canadian computer scientist who created the APL programming language
1920 – 2004
Science
John Backus
IBM engineer who led the creation of Fortran, the first widely used high-level language
1924 – 2007
Technology
Joe Armstrong
British computer scientist who co-created the Erlang programming language
1950 – 2019
Robin Milner
British computer scientist who created the ML language and theories of concurrency
1934 – 2010
Technology
Rich Hickey
Creator of the Clojure programming language and Datomic database
Technology
Rasmus Lerdorf
Danish-Canadian programmer who created PHP
Born 1968
Science
Peter Naur
Danish computer scientist who edited the ALGOL 60 report and refined Backus–Naur form
1928 – 2016
Science
Niklaus Wirth
Swiss computer scientist who designed the Pascal programming language
1934 – 2024
Science
Martin Odersky
German computer scientist who created the Scala programming language
Born 1958
Technology
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer who created the Python programming language
Born 1956
Science
Dana Scott
Logician who gave programming languages a mathematical meaning
Born 1932
Technology
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist who created the C++ programming language
Born 1950
Science
Barbara Liskov
MIT computer scientist known for data abstraction and the Liskov substitution principle
Born 1939
Technology
Anders Hejlsberg
Danish software engineer behind Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C# and TypeScript
Born 1960
Alan Perlis
Programming-language pioneer and the first winner of the Turing Award
1922 – 1990