Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup

male, 58 years old (College Station, Texas, United States)
The C++ Programming Language, computer science, c++ programming language, c++, professor, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery…Programming language designer, programminglanguage
Bjarne Stroustrup (born December 30, 1950 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a computer scientist and the College of Engineering Chair Professor of Computer...
Larry Wall

Larry Wall

male, 55 years old
Perl, programming language creator, Programming Perl, Perl writer, linguist, computer programmer…Programming language designer, programminglanguage
Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, linguist, and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in...
Brian Kernighan

Brian Kernighan

male, 67 years old
Princeton University alumni, Princeton University faculty, UNIX person, Bell Labs, UNIX programming, C programming language…The C Programming Language, AMPL programming language, Programming language designer, programminglanguage
Brian Wilson Kernighan, (born 1942 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken...
Niklaus Wirth

Niklaus Wirth

male, 75 years old
Turing Award, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Formal methods, Niklaus E. Wirth, software engineering, programminglanguage…Programming language designer
Niklaus E. Wirth (b. February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal,...
John Backus

John Backus

male, deceased (2007) (San Francisco, California, United States)
Turing Award laureate, programming language creator, National Medal of Science recipient, IBM 704, Backus-Naur form, National Medal of Science…Programming language designer, programminglanguage, High-level programming language, Fortran programming language, Function-level programming
John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language...
Yukihiro Matsumoto

Yukihiro Matsumoto

male, 44 years old
Ruby programming language, ruby, matz, computer scientist, programming language creator, Japanese computer scientist…Programming language designer, programminglanguage
is a Japanese computer scientist and software programmer best known as the chief designer of the Ruby programming language. He was born in Osaka...
Philip Wadler

Philip Wadler

male
monads in functional programming, programming language design, Type theory, Links, Web Applications, XQuery…Functional programming, programminglanguage
Philip Wadler is a computer scientist well-known for his contributions to programming language design and type theory. In particular, he has...
Luca Cardelli

Luca Cardelli

male
Microsoft Research, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, computer scientist, Montecatini Terme, operational semantics, Type theory…ML programming language, typeful programming, programminglanguage, Functional programming
Luca Cardelli is an Italian computer scientist who is currently an Assistant Director at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. Cardelli is...
Brendan Eich

Brendan Eich

male
JavaScript, creator of JavaScript, computer programmer, Mozilla developer, chief technology officer, Mozilla Corporation…programminglanguage
Brendan Eich (born 1961) is a computer programmer and creator of the JavaScript programming language. He is the Chief Technology Officer at the...
Robert Harper

Robert Harper

male
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Standard ML, type systems, LF logical framework, Type theory, ACM Fellow…programminglanguage
Robert Harper is a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University who works in programming language research. He made major contributions...