Larry Wall

Larry Wall

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

Paul Graham

male, 45 years old
Y Combinator, entrepreneur, Lisp Programmer, Viaweb, programminglanguagecreator, good writer…Lisp programming language, programming languages
Paul Graham (b. Weymouth, England, 1964) is a Lisp programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist. He is the author of "On Lisp" (1993), "ANSI Common...
Guido van Rossum

Guido van Rossum

male (San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States)
python, Google employee, creator of Python, Python programming language, Programmer, dutch…programminglanguagecreator, Programming language designer, Computer Programming for Everybody, ABC programming language
Guido van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. In the Python community, Van...
John Backus

John Backus

male, deceased (2007) (San Francisco, California, United States)
Turing Award laureate, programminglanguagecreator, National Medal of Science recipient, IBM 704, Backus-Naur form, National Medal of Science…Programming language designer, programming language, 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...
Anders Hejlsberg

Anders Hejlsberg

male, 49 years old
software engineer, c sharp, Turbo Pascal, programminglanguagecreator, Microsoft employee, C#…C# programming, Programming language designer
Before joining Microsoft in 1996, Hejlsberg was one of the first employees of Borland International Inc. As principal engineer, he was the original...
Yukihiro Matsumoto

Yukihiro Matsumoto

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

Bertrand Meyer

male, 59 years old
Electricité de France, Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D., Master's Degree, Nancy, France, Formal methods…Programming language designer, Eiffel programming language, Eiffel The Language, object-oriented programming, programminglanguagecreator
Bertrand Meyer (born 1950 in France) developed the Eiffel programming language, and is an author, academic and consultant in the field of computer...