List of programming language researchers
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The following is list of researchers working on programming language theory, design, implementation, and related areas.
- Paul Abrahams - developer of SPLASH language, professor and past president of the ACM
- 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
- James Gosling, father of the Java programming language.
- Douglas Gregor, Open System Laboratory, Indiana University, Concepts feature of upcoming standard of C++0x[citation needed]
- Malcolm Harrison, developer of BALM, NYU LISP research
- Dr. Grace Hopper, co-designer of COBOL
- Alan Kay, and Dan Ingalls, co-inventors of Smalltalk
- Monica S. Lam, Professor at Stanford University[clarification needed]
- Kristen Nygaard, co-inventor of Simula
- Bjarne Stroustrup, designer of C++, currently College of Engineering Chair Professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M University[1]
- Niklaus Wirth, designer of Pascal, Modula-2, etc.
