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
Gilad Bracha, designer of Newspeak, researcher in the area of Reflection^[1]
Walter Bright, designer of D.
Alain Colmerauer, creator of Prolog
Ole-Johan Dahl, co-inventor of Simula.
Matt Dean, creator of CobolScript
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#
Roberto Ierusalimschy, designer of Lua
Brian Kernighan, co-designer of C, AWK and AMPL
Yukihiro Matsumoto, designer of Ruby.
Frank Mashraqi, creator of entity Universal language
John McCarthy, designer of LISP
Kristen Nygaard, co-inventor of Simula
Martin Odersky, designer of Scala
John Ousterhout, designer of Tcl
Dennis Ritchie, designer of C
Guido van Rossum, designer of Python
Guy L. Steele, Jr., co-designer of Scheme and designer of Fortress
Bjarne Stroustrup, designer of C++
Gerald Jay Sussman, co-designer of Scheme
Don Syme, creator of F#
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
Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Language

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