List of programming language researchers

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The following is list of researchers of programming language theory, design, implementation, and related areas.

Dr. Paul Abrahams, former president of ACM, developer of SPLASH systems programming language
John Backus, leader of the team that developed FORTRAN, developer of BNF
Friedrich L. Bauer, co-designer of ALGOL
Walter Bright, designer of D.
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.
Rich Hickey, designer of Clojure
Grace Hopper, co-designer of COBOL
Alan Kay, and Dan Ingalls, co-inventors of Smalltalk
Anders Hejlsberg, original author of Turbo Pascal, chief architect of C#
Yukihiro Matsumoto, designer of Ruby.
John McCarthy, designer of LISP
Kristen Nygaard, co-inventor of Simula
John Ousterhout, designer of Tcl
Dennis Ritchie, designer of C
Guido van Rossum, designer of Python
Bjarne Stroustrup, designer of C++
Ken Thompson, designer of B and co-designer of Go
Niklaus Wirth, designer of Pascal, Modula-2
Larry Wall, designer of Perl
Philip Wadler, designer of Haskell
Martin Odersky, designer of Scala
Gilad Bracha, designer of Newspeak, researcher in the area of Reflection^[1]
Roberto Ierusalimschy, designer of Lua
Guy L. Steele, Jr., co-designer of Scheme and designer of Fortress
Gerald Jay Sussman, co-designer of Scheme
Alain Colmerauer, creator of Prolog
Don Syme, creator of F#
Frank Mashraqi, creator of entity Universal language
Matt Dean, creator of CobolScript

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