Application programmers

  1. Bram Cohen — Wrote BitTorrent
  2. Charles Simonyi — Invented Hungarian notation. Original author of Microsoft Word. Head of the IP project at Microsoft, now running intentsoft.com
  3. Dan Bricklin — Wrote Visicalc
  4. Justin Frankel — Wrote Winamp, NSIS, and Gnutella
  5. Max Levchin — Co-founder Pay Pal & Slide
  6. Mitchell Kapor — Founded Lotus
  7. Neil Hodgson — Wrote Scintilla and SciTE
  8. Nick Bradbury — Wrote HomeSite, TopStyle, and FeedDemon
  9. Ray Ozzie — Main architect of Lotus Notes. Now Chief Software Architect at Microsoft.
  10. Rob Barnaby — Worked some on early Logo, wrote Word Star. Also did Stringcomp, an early string processing language.

BSD hackers

  1. Bill Joy — Wrote BSD TCP/IP stack, vi
  2. Chris Torek — BSDI os hacker
  3. Keith Bostic — Worked on BSD at Berkeley and one of the original authors of BerkeleyDB
  4. Marshall Kirk McKusick — Designed Berkeley Fast File System.
  5. Matt Dillon — FreeBSD hacker, founded DragonFly BSD project
  6. Mike Karels — System architect of BSD 4.3 and 4.4 releases.
  7. Poul-Henning Kamp — FreeBSD kernel hacker
  8. Sam Leffler — BSD hacker. Wrote FreeBSD wi-fi drivers
  9. Theo de Raadt — Founder of OpenBSD project. Original author of OpenSSH.

C hackers

  1. Fabrice Bellard — Wrote QEMU, TinyCC, FFMPEG; Winner of 2001 IOCCC
  2. P.J. Plauger — Worked on first commercial C compiler

Chess programmers

  1. Amir Ban — Co-author of Junior chess program.
  2. Chrilly Donninger — Author of the Hydra chess program.
  3. Frans Morsch — Co-author of Fritz chess program.
  4. Mathias Feist — Co-author of Fritz chess program.
  5. Shay Bushinsky — Co-author of Junior chess program.
  6. Stefan Meyer-Kahlen — Author of Shredder chess program

Compiler/VM implementors

  1. Allison Randal — Architect of Parrot virtual machine
  2. Dan Sugalski — Original architect of Parrot VM
  3. Evan Phoenix — Author of Rubinus compiler/virtual machine for Ruby
  4. Frances Allen — Pioneer in optimizing compilers. First woman to win Turing Award (2006) and first woman IBM fellow.
  5. L. Peter Deutsch — Author of Ghostscript, Implemented Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5 on PDP-1
  6. Ola Bini — Core JRuby developer
  7. Simon Peyton Jones — Co-inventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell Compiler.
  8. Thomas Enebo — Principle JRuby developer
  9. Urs Hölzle — Researcher behind Sun's HotSpot JVM technology.
  10. Xavier Leroy — Primary developer of OCaml. Wrote LinuxThreads threading package used in pre 2.6 Linux kernels

Database/filesystem implementors

  1. Bruce Momjian — Core PostgreSQL developer
  2. Dominic Giampaolo — Wrote BeOS file system
  3. Donald Chamberlin — Principle designer of SQL; ACM Intercollegiate Programming Contest judge, 1998-2005
  4. Jeff Bonwick — Chief architect of ZFS
  5. Mark Maybee — Worked on ZFS DMU at Sun.
  6. Marshall Kirk McKusick — Designed Berkeley Fast File System.
  7. Matthew Ahrens — Works on ZFS in kernel group at Sun
  8. Richard Hipp — Wrote sqlite embedded SQL database
  9. Tom Lane — Core PostgreSQL developer responsible for optimizer.

Educators

  1. Brian Harvey — UC Comp Sci professor. Author of Berkeley Logo
  2. Ellen Spertus — Head of Interdisciplinary Computer Science department at Mills College

Game programmers

  1. Andy Gavin — Co-founder of Naughty Dog software. Wrote GOAL which was used to develop Jak and Daxter.
  2. John Carmack — Founder of id Software; lead programmer of Doom, Quake, and others.
  3. Tim Sweeney — Founder of Epic Games. Wrote the Unreal Engine.
  4. Wouter van Oortmerssen — Game programmer and language designer

Googlers

  1. Andy Hertzfeld — Key Macintosh developer
  2. Guido van Rossum — Invented Python
  3. Jeff Dean — Google Fellow in Systems Infrastructure Group. Co-inventor of MapReduce.
  4. Joshua Bloch — Author of Java collections framework. Now at Google.
  5. Ken Thompson — Inventor of UNIX
  6. Larry Page — Founded Google
  7. Paul Buchheit — Creator of GMail
  8. Peter Norvig — Director of Research at Google and author of the standard text on AI.
  9. Rob Pike — Author of first bitmap windowing system for Unix. Worked on Plan 9. Now works at Google.
  10. Sergey Brin — Founded Google
  11. Steve Yegge — Blogger and Googler
  12. Udi Manber — VP of Engineering at Google. Co-author of Glimpse, Agrep, and Harvest search packages.
  13. Urs Hölzle — Researcher behind Sun's HotSpot JVM technology.

Graphics programmers

  1. Alvy Ray Smith — Graphics pioneer. Worked at LucasFilm, helped found Pixar.
  2. Dan Piponi — Graphics programmer and theorist.
  3. Ivan Sutherland — Invented Sketchpad, precursor to modern GUIs
  4. Jim Blinn — Graphics Fellow at Microsoft
  5. Paul Haeberli — Computer graphics researcher
  6. Tom Duff — Invented Duff's device and noted graphics programmer
  7. Zack Rusin — Qt graphics guru

Haskell programmers

  1. Audrey Tang — Leader of Pugs project to implement Perl 6 in Haskell
  2. Don Stewart — Haskell hacker
  3. Eric Meijer — Architect in SQL server group at Microsoft working on combining functional programming with the CLR and SQL
  4. Simon Peyton Jones — Co-inventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell Compiler.
  5. Spencer Janssen — Wrote xmonad, a tiling window manager implemened in Haskell

Himself

  1. Richard Stallman — Wrote Emacs, gcc, and started the Free Software movement.

Internet infrastructure implementors

  1. Bernie Cosell — One of the main software guys behind the original ARPANET IMP's and a master debugger.
  2. Brian Behlendorf — Apache organizer
  3. Eric Allman — Wrote sendmail
  4. Eric Bina — Co-wrote Mosaic.
  5. Frank Heart — Managed the group that built the ARPANET.
  6. Jamie Zawinski — Author of XEmacs and early Netscape/Mozilla hacker.
  7. Jarkko Oikarinen — Started IRC
  8. Jeff Mogul — HP Fellow working on networking performance. Contributed to HTTP 1.1 spec
  9. Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen — Wrote Gnus and Gmane
  10. Marc Andreessen — Co-wrote Mosaic. Founded Netscape.
  11. Paul Vixie — Wrote BIND
  12. Ray Tomlinson — Wrote first networked email system and gave us the @-sign in email addresses.
  13. Rob McCool — Wrote NCSA HTTPd; drafted Common Gateway Interface specification
  14. Robert Thau — Early Apache developer. Started Bianca Troll
  15. Roy Fielding — One of the principle authors of HTTP specification. Invented REST. Co-founder of Apache project
  16. Van Jacobson — Redesigned TCP/IP flow control algorithms, saving the net from total collapse. Eponymous inventor of Van Jacobson TCP/IP header compression.
  17. Vinton Cerf — Father of TCP/IP
  18. Will Crowther — Wrote Adventure and the inner packet processing loop of the original internet IMPs

Java programmers

  1. Amy Fowler — Core Java Swing developer
  2. Craig McClanahan — Original author of Apache Struts
  3. Dick Wall — Co-host of the Java Posse podcast. Works at Google.
  4. Doug Lea — Concurrency expert and systems programmer.
  5. Gavin King — Original author of Hibernate, JBoss Seam
  6. James Duncan Davidson — Started Apache Ant and Apache Tomcat projects. Author of Java Servlet API and Java API for XML processing J2EE specifications.
  7. Joshua Bloch — Author of Java collections framework. Now at Google.
  8. Rod Johnson — Original author of Spring Framework

Javascript gurus

  1. Alex Russell — Created Dojo Javascript library
  2. Brendan Eich — Invented Javascript
  3. Douglas Crockford — JSON founder, JavaScript Architect at Yahoo!
  4. Sam Stephenson — Created Prototype Javascript library

Language designers

  1. Alain Colmerauer — Invented Prolog
  2. Alan Kay — Inventor of Smalltalk. Coined the term "object-oriented programming".
  3. Alexander Stepanov — Author of the Standard Template Library for C++
  4. Anders Hejlsberg — Lead architect of C#, Architect of Delphi at Borland. Wrote what became Turbo Pascal
  5. Arthur Whitney — Invented A+ and K languages and wrote prototype of J language
  6. Bertrand Meyer — Invented Eiffel
  7. Bjarne Stroustrup — Invented C++
  8. Brad Cox — Invented Objective C
  9. Brendan Eich — Invented Javascript
  10. Chuck Moore — Invented Forth
  11. David Korn — Wrote the Korn shell
  12. Dennis Ritchie — Invented C and contributed to development of UNIX
  13. Dierk Koenig. — Groovy, Grails contributor
  14. Eric Meijer — Architect in SQL server group at Microsoft working on combining functional programming with the CLR and SQL
  15. Graham Nelson — Invented Inform language used to program interatvive fiction
  16. Gregor Kiczales — Wrote Common Lisp MOP. Invented Aspect Oriented programming.
  17. Guido van Rossum — Invented Python
  18. Guillaume Laforge — Groovy project lead
  19. James Gosling — Invented Java, NeWS windowing system.
  20. Joe Armstrong — Inventor of Erlang
  21. John Ousterhout — Invented TCL
  22. Larry Wall — Invented Perl
  23. Martin Odersky — Invented Scala
  24. Niklaus Wirth — Invented Pascal, Modula, Oberon
  25. Peter Weinberger — The W in AWK
  26. Rasmus Lerdorf — Invented PHP
  27. Roberto Ierusalimschy — Invented Lua
  28. Simon Peyton Jones — Co-inventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell Compiler.
  29. Steve Dekorte — Invented Io language.
  30. Xavier Leroy — Primary developer of OCaml. Wrote LinuxThreads threading package used in pre 2.6 Linux kernels
  31. Yukihiro Matsumoto — Invented Ruby

Linux hackers

  1. Alan Cox — One of Linus Torvalds's main lieutenants. Wrote Linux TCP/IP code.
  2. Alessandro Rubini — Linux kernel hacker
  3. Andrew Tridgell — Wrote Samba file server and co-invented rsync algorithm
  4. Carla Schroder — Long-time Linux geek.
  5. Ingo Molnár — Linux hacker, author of many Linux perfomance improvements.
  6. Linus Torvalds — Wrote and maintains Linux kernel. Wrote GIT version control system.
  7. Mark Shuttleworth — Founded Thawte and Ubuntu project. Previously a Debian developer
  8. Paul 'Rusty' Russell — One of Linus Torvald's top deputies. Wrote ipchains and netfilter/iptables packet filtering code
  9. Paul Mackerras — Samba developer
  10. Val Henson — Kernel hacker and file systems specialist.

Mac developers

  1. Andy Hertzfeld — Key Macintosh developer
  2. Bill Atkinson — Early Mac developer. Designed and implemented Hypercard
  3. Wil Shipley — Wrote Delicious Monster. Founded Omni Group

Methodologists

  1. Barry Boehem — Software metrics guru
  2. Martin Fowler — Chief Scientist at Thoughtworks. Author of Refactoring and many other books.
  3. Robert Martin — Founder and CEO of Object Mentor. C++ and Agile methods expert.
  4. Watts Humphrey — CMM guru.

Microsoftie

  1. Leslie Lamport — Distributed systems researcher and developer of LaTeX

Microsofties

  1. Anders Hejlsberg — Lead architect of C#, Architect of Delphi at Borland. Wrote what became Turbo Pascal
  2. Bill Gates — Wrote BASIC for Altair
  3. Butler Lampson — Systems pioneer. Worked on Xerox's Alto.
  4. Charles Simonyi — Invented Hungarian notation. Original author of Microsoft Word. Head of the IP project at Microsoft, now running intentsoft.com
  5. David Cutler — Architect of VMS and Windows NT
  6. Eric Meijer — Architect in SQL server group at Microsoft working on combining functional programming with the CLR and SQL
  7. Jim Blinn — Graphics Fellow at Microsoft
  8. Larry Osterman — Longtime Microsoftie
  9. Paul Allen — Co-founded Microsoft.
  10. Ray Ozzie — Main architect of Lotus Notes. Now Chief Software Architect at Microsoft.
  11. Raymond Chen — Worked on OS/2, Windows 95, and Direct X

New-school Lisp hackers

  1. Andy Gavin — Co-founder of Naughty Dog software. Wrote GOAL which was used to develop Jak and Daxter.
  2. Dave Fox — Lisp hacker, directior of Lispworks Ltd.
  3. Edi Weitz — Lisp library hacker extraordinaire. Co-organizer of the European Common Lisp Meetings 2005 and 2006
  4. Erik Naggum — Lisp hacker
  5. Joe Marshall — Lisp hacker
  6. John Foderaro — Original author of Franz's Allegro Common Lisp
  7. John Harper — Wrote librep and the sawfish window manager
  8. Luke Gorrie — Lisp and Erlang hacker. Project lead for SLIME.
  9. Marco Baringer — Common Lisp hacker, author of Uncommon Web
  10. Paul Graham — Lisp hacker and author.
  11. Rainer Joswig — Contributes to CL-HTTP

OS gurus

  1. Andrew Tanenbaum — Created Minix, advocate for micro-kernels.
  2. David Cutler — Architect of VMS and Windows NT

Old-school Lisp hackers

  1. Bill Gosper — One of the original MIT hackers. Worked on Lisp machines, Maclisp, and Macsyma
  2. Dan Weinreb — Founder of Symbolics. Now at ITA.
  3. Danny Hillis — Founder of Thinking Machines
  4. Gerald Jay Sussman — Co-creator of Scheme and co-author of The Structure And Interpretation of Computer Programs.
  5. Guy Steele — Co-inventor of Scheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang of Five. Currently working on Fortress.
  6. Hal Abelson — Abelson of Abelson and Sussman. MIT professor.
  7. Henry Baker — One of the founder of Symbolics; comp sci. researcher
  8. Jamie Zawinski — Author of XEmacs and early Netscape/Mozilla hacker.
  9. John McCarthy — Invented Lisp
  10. Jonathan Rees — Designed T dialect of Scheme and co-wrote Scheme 48
  11. Kent Pitman — Technical Editor of Common Lisp ANSI standard
  12. L. Peter Deutsch — Author of Ghostscript, Implemented Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5 on PDP-1
  13. Marvin Minsky — Artifical Intelligence researcher
  14. Olin Shivers — Comp Sci professor interested in Scheme and ML. Wrote scsh
  15. Peter Norvig — Director of Research at Google and author of the standard text on AI.
  16. Philip Greenspun — Author of Greenspun's Tenth Law and sometimes instructor at MIT
  17. Richard Fateman — Computer algebraist. Worked on MacSysma and Maxima
  18. Richard Gabriel — Lisper and Poet. Currently a Distinguished Engineer at IBM. Chair of OOPSLA 2007.
  19. Richard Greenblatt — Main implementor of Maclisp on PDP-6. Co-founded Lisp Machines, Inc.
  20. Richard Kelsey — Co-wrote Scheme 48 and edited R5RS
  21. Rusty Bobrow — BBNer doing work in computational linguistics, speech recognition, and artificial intelligence.
  22. Scott McKay — Lisp and Dylan designer.
  23. Steve Russell — One of John McCarthy's grad students. Brought Lisp to life by hand-coding EVAL in assembler. Wrote Spacewar.

Old-school Unix hackers

  1. Brian Kernighan — The K in AWK and K&R. Author of the original "hello, world" program.
  2. Charles Hedrick — Lisp Unix hacker
  3. David Korn — Wrote the Korn shell
  4. Dennis Ritchie — Invented C and contributed to development of UNIX
  5. Douglas McIlroy — Unix toolsmith; invented Unix pipelines
  6. Henry Spencer — Wrote Unix regex library later incorporated into Tcl and Perl. Co-wrote C News news server
  7. John Gilmore — Contributor to several GNU projects. Co-author of Bootstrap protocol which became DHCP. Founder of EFF, Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus solutions.
  8. John Mashey — Early Unix hacker
  9. Ken Thompson — Inventor of UNIX
  10. Peter Weinberger — The W in AWK
  11. Rob Pike — Author of first bitmap windowing system for Unix. Worked on Plan 9. Now works at Google.
  12. Sape Mullender — Member of Technical Staff, Lucent Technologies,Bell Labs Innovations, Computing Sciences Research, Murray Hill, New Jersey.

Perl programmers

  1. Allison Randal — Architect of Parrot virtual machine
  2. Audrey Tang — Leader of Pugs project to implement Perl 6 in Haskell
  3. Damian Conway — Perl hacker and three time winner of the Larry Wall award. Wrote Lingua::Romana::Perligata and others.
  4. Dan Sugalski — Original architect of Parrot VM
  5. Ilya Zakharevich — Major contributor to perl5 including a major reworking of the regex engine.
  6. Mark Jason Dominus — Perl programmer; author of Higher Order Perl

Python programmers

  1. Adrian Holovaty — Lead developer of Django
  2. Alex Martelli — Co-author of Python Cookbook and Author of Python in a Nutshell
  3. Bram Cohen — Wrote BitTorrent
  4. Jacob Kaplan-Moss — Django developer. Wrote Tivo apps in Python and now hacking Python on the PSP
  5. Jim Hugunin — Original author of Iron Python, now at Microsoft working on dynamic languages on the CLR. Co-designer of AspectJ language, lead development through 1.1 release.
  6. Ka-Ping Yee — Python hacker extraordinaire.
  7. Mark Pilgrim — Wrote Universal Feed Parser. Author of Dive into Python and Dive into Accessibility.
  8. Simon Willison — Django developer. Hacker Liason for Yahoo UK
  9. Tim Peters — Python hacker and author of Spambayes

Ruby programmers

  1. Andrew Hunt — Co-founder of Pragmatic Programmers
  2. Charles Nutter — Principle JRuby developer
  3. Chris Wanstrath — Notable Rails programmer
  4. Dave Thomas — Co-founder of Pragmatic Programmers
  5. David Heinemeier Hansson — Invented Rails
  6. Evan Phoenix — Author of Rubinus compiler/virtual machine for Ruby
  7. Ola Bini — Core JRuby developer
  8. Rick Olsen — Core Rails developer, wrote Mephisto and Beast
  9. Thomas Enebo — Principle JRuby developer
  10. Why the lucky stiff — Core Ruby developer and free spirit
  11. Zed Shaw — Wrote Mongrel (Rails HTTP server)

Scientific programmers

  1. Gavin Schmidt — Programmer on GISS climate modeling software.
  2. Michael C. Schatz — Author of a number of gene sequencing programs.
  3. Peter Karp — Responsible for the development of BioCyc

Security/computer forensics experts

  1. Bruce Schneier — Security expert. Creator of Twofish block cipher.
  2. Dan Bernstein — Wrote djbns and qmail
  3. Dan Farmer — Co-wrote Satan and TCT
  4. Dan Geer — Security expert
  5. Marcus Ranum — Security expert and author of Firewall Toolkit and Network Flight Recorder
  6. Radia Perlman — Invented spanning-tree protocol
  7. Salvatore Sanfilippo — Software developer and security expert
  8. Theo de Raadt — Founder of OpenBSD project. Original author of OpenSSH.
  9. Whitfield Diffie — Discovered principle of public key cryptography
  10. Wietse Venema — Wrote Postfix. Co-wrote Satan and TCT

Smalltalkers

  1. Adele Goldberg — Smalltalk designer and documenter.
  2. Alan Kay — Inventor of Smalltalk. Coined the term "object-oriented programming".
  3. Avi Bryant — Co-founder Dabble DB
  4. Dan Ingalls — Smalltalk implementor and designer.
  5. L. Peter Deutsch — Author of Ghostscript, Implemented Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5 on PDP-1

Software patternists

  1. Erich Gamma — One of the Gang of Four
  2. John Vlissides — One of the Gang of Four
  3. Ralph Johnson — One of the Gang of Four
  4. Richard Helm — One of the Gang of Four

Sun

  1. Bob Scheifler — Led the development of X Windows while the X Consortium was at MIT
  2. Guy Steele — Co-inventor of Scheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang of Five. Currently working on Fortress.
  3. Jeff Bonwick — Chief architect of ZFS
  4. Mark Maybee — Worked on ZFS DMU at Sun.
  5. Matthew Ahrens — Works on ZFS in kernel group at Sun
  6. Radia Perlman — Invented spanning-tree protocol

Super optimizers

  1. Michael Abrash — Optimization expert
  2. Steve Wozniak — Wrote most of the original Apple II software.

Theoreticians

  1. Donald Knuth — Author of The Art of Computer Programming and TeX
  2. Jon Kleinberg — Cornell Comp. Sci. professor.
  3. Peter Van Roy — Contributor to Mozart/Oz programming system. Author of Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
  4. Philip Wadler — Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh. Contributed to design of Java, Haskell, and XQuery.
  5. Richard Karp — Researcher in theory of algorithms

Uncategorized

  1. Austin Meyer — Author of X-Plane and Space Combat flight simulators
  2. Dennis Crawley — DodgeBall
  3. Don Hopkins — Invented Pie Menus, working on One Laptop Per Child project.
  4. Douglas Engelbart — Invented computer mouse
  5. Edward Feigenbaum — Father of Expert Systems
  6. Eric Swildens — Founder Microline Software, Co-founder Speedera Networks
  7. Erik Benson — Cheif Janitorial Officer - Robot Coop
  8. Graeme Rocher — Grails project lead
  9. Graham Spencer — Co-founder Excite & Jot-Spot
  10. Greg Linden — Founder Findory & worked at Amazon
  11. Jeff Rubin — According to Richard Gabriel a "code-writing savant".
  12. Joel Reymont — Open Poker
  13. John Socha — Wrote many DOS software packages for Norton Computing
  14. Jon Bentley — Author of Programming Pearls books.
  15. Munjal Shah — Co-founder Riya
  16. Naval Ravikanth — Founder vast.com
  17. Peter Norton — Wrote the first version of the Norton Utilities
  18. Robert Morris — Wrote the Internet Worm and co-founded Viaweb with Paul Graham
  19. Roger Hui — Implementor of of J language
  20. Russ Cox — Worked on Plan 9. Represented U.S. at 1995 International Olympiad in Informatics
  21. Simon Tatham — Author of PuTTY
  22. Stephen Wolfram — Invented Mathematica
  23. Trevor Blackwell — Principal at Viaweb. Now founder and CEO of Anybots

Unix app programmers

  1. Bob Scheifler — Led the development of X Windows while the X Consortium was at MIT
  2. Bram Moolenaar — Wrote VIM (Vi IMproved)
  3. Keith Packard — X Windows hacker, founded X.Org Server project
  4. Miguel de Icaza — Wrote GNOME and Mono
  5. Peter Mattis — Co-wrote GIMP. Googler.
  6. Spencer Kimball — Co-wrote GIMP. Googler.

Version control authors

  1. Linus Torvalds — Wrote and maintains Linux kernel. Wrote GIT version control system.
  2. Matt Mackall — Wrote Mecurial version control system.
  3. Tom Lord — Scheme and C hacker. Wrote GNU Arch

Web 2.0 creators

  1. Aaron Swartz — Invented web.py
  2. Alex Russell — Created Dojo Javascript library
  3. Biz Stone — Twitter
  4. Brad Fitzpatrick — Wrote LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached, Perlbal
  5. Douglas Crockford — JSON founder, JavaScript Architect at Yahoo!
  6. Evan Williams — Twitter
  7. Janus Friis — Founder of Joost, Skype, Kazaa
  8. Mark Fletcher — Founder Bloglines, egroups
  9. Mark Zuckerberg — Founder and CEO of Facebook
  10. Niklas Zennstrom — Founder of Joost, Skype, Kazaa
  11. Paul Buchheit — Creator of GMail
  12. Peter-Paul Koch — Javascript guru. Maintains quirksmode website.
  13. Sam Stephenson — Created Prototype Javascript library

Women

  1. Adele Goldberg — Smalltalk designer and documenter.
  2. Allison Randal — Architect of Parrot virtual machine
  3. Amy Fowler — Core Java Swing developer
  4. Audrey Tang — Leader of Pugs project to implement Perl 6 in Haskell
  5. Carla Schroder — Long-time Linux geek.
  6. Elizabeth Rather — Colleague of Chuck Moore and second ever Forth programmer
  7. Ellen Spertus — Head of Interdisciplinary Computer Science department at Mills College
  8. Frances Allen — Pioneer in optimizing compilers. First woman to win Turing Award (2006) and first woman IBM fellow.
  9. Radia Perlman — Invented spanning-tree protocol
  10. Val Henson — Kernel hacker and file systems specialist.

Writers/bloggers/consultants

  1. Bruce Eckel — Founding member of ANSI/ISO C++ committee. Author of Thinking in Java and Thinking in C++.
  2. Joel Spolsky — FogCreekSoftware
  3. Scott Meyers — Author of Effective C++, More Effective C++, Effective STL
  4. Steve Yegge — Blogger and Googler

XPers

  1. Kent Beck — Creator of XP
  2. Michael Feathers — XP guru
  3. Ward Cunningham — Wrote the first Wiki and FIT.

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