This group gathers pioneers of software and its engineering whose primary contribution was designing or co-designing a programming language, from early efforts such as FORTRAN, ALGOL, COBOL and BASIC through later general-purpose, functional, object-oriented and scripting languages including C, C++, Smalltalk, Python, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Rust, Go, Haskell and Scala. It follows the Programming Languages second-level heading of the ACM Computing Classification System under Software and its engineering. Their shared work is the language itself, its syntax, semantics and the paradigm it embodies, as distinct from the compilers and interpreters that implement a language or the tools built to write software in it.
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1. Wikipedia: History of programming languages
Wikimedia FoundationHistory of programming languages, lead section, Plankalkul sentenceQuote, History of programming languages, lead section, Plankalkul sentence
The first high-level programming language was Plankalkül, created by Konrad Zuse between 1942 and 1945.
Wikipedia: Perry R. Cook
Has Member: Perry R. Cook, Wikipedia 'Perry R. Cook': with Ge Wang, authored the ChucK programming language.View the Source Bob Bemer, Wikipedia
Has Member: Robert W. Bemer, Wikipedia 'Bob Bemer': served on the committee that amalgamated his COMTRAN language with FLOW-MATIC to produce the specifications for COBOL.View the Source Ross Ihaka (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Ross Ihaka, Lead sectionQuote, Has Member: Ross Ihaka, Lead section
he is one of the creators of the R programming language
Jacob T. Schwartz (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Jacob T. Schwartz, Lead sectionQuote, Has Member: Jacob T. Schwartz, Lead section
He was the designer of the SETL programming language
Valentin Turchin (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Valentin Turchin, Lead sectionQuote, Has Member: Valentin Turchin, Lead section
He developed the Refal programming language
Cynthia Solomon (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Cynthia Solomon, Article textQuote, Has Member: Cynthia Solomon, Article text
she worked with Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert, to create the first programming language for children, named Logo
David Ungar (Wikipedia)
Has Member: David Ungar, Article textQuote, Has Member: David Ungar, Article text
co-created the Self programming language with Randall Smith
James Cordy (Wikipedia)
Has Member: James Cordy, Biography, programming languages paragraphQuote, Has Member: James Cordy, Biography, programming languages paragraph
Work in programming languages included the design of Concurrent Euclid (1980) and Turing (1983), with R.C. Holt
PostgreSQL Contributor Profiles (Jan Wieck)
Has Member: Jan Wieck, Language creation statementQuote, Has Member: Jan Wieck, Language creation statement
wrote the procedural languages PL/pgSQL and PL/Tcl
Blitz BASIC (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Mark Sibly, Language creation statementQuote, Has Member: Mark Sibly, Language creation statement
devised by New Zealand
Randall Hyde (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Randall Hyde, Language creation statementQuote, Has Member: Randall Hyde, Language creation statement
developed the High Level Assembly (HLA) language
Gambas Documentation, Introduction and About me
Has Member: Benoît Minisini, Language creation statementQuote, Has Member: Benoît Minisini, Language creation statement
This project aims at making a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter
Graham Nelson (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Graham Nelson, Article lead [in-field]Quote, Has Member: Graham Nelson, Article lead [in-field]
the creator of the Inform design system for creating interactive fiction (IF) games
Hongwei Xi (Boston University Computer Science profile)
Has Member: Hongwei Xi, Profile biographyQuote, Has Member: Hongwei Xi, Profile biography
He is the principal designer and implementor of the ATS programming language
Lambert Meertens (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Lambert Meertens, Life and careerQuote, Has Member: Lambert Meertens, Life and career
He was the originator and one of the designers of the programming language ABC
Joseph J. Allaire (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Joseph J. Allaire, Lead [in-group]Quote, Has Member: Joseph J. Allaire, Lead [in-group]
He created the ColdFusion programming language and web application server
Wally Feurzeig (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Wally Feurzeig, Lead paragraphQuote, Has Member: Wally Feurzeig, Lead paragraph
was an American computer scientist who was co-inventor, with Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon, of the programming language Logo
Wikipedia: Mike Cowlishaw
Has Member: Mike Cowlishaw, Career at IBMQuote, Has Member: Mike Cowlishaw, Career at IBM
He is known for designing and implementing the Rexx programming language (1984)
Steven Pemberton (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Steven Pemberton, LeadQuote, Has Member: Steven Pemberton, Lead
Steven Pemberton is a researcher affiliated with the Distributed and Interactive Systems group at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI),
Trenchard More (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Trenchard More, LeadQuote, Has Member: Trenchard More, Lead
Trenchard More (1930-2019) was a mathematician and computer scientist who worked at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center and Cambridge S
Wikipedia: Jeremy Ashkenas
Has Member: Jeremy Ashkenas, Lead paragraphQuote, Has Member: Jeremy Ashkenas, Lead paragraph
creation and co-creation of the CoffeeScript and LiveScript programming languages respectively
Barry Vercoe (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Barry Vercoe, Lead, CsoundQuote, Has Member: Barry Vercoe, Lead, Csound
he is best known as the inventor of Csound, a music synthesis language
Phyllis Fox (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Phyllis Fox, Later career, DYNAMO and LISPQuote, Has Member: Phyllis Fox, Later career, DYNAMO and LISP
the team that wrote the DYNAMO programming language
Ike Nassi (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Ike Nassi, Career sectionQuote, Has Member: Ike Nassi, Career section
He also helped design the Ada programming language.
Elizabeth Rather (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Elizabeth Rather, Career, FORTH Inc foundingQuote, Has Member: Elizabeth Rather, Career, FORTH Inc founding
She co-founded FORTH, Inc. with Charles Moore in 1973.
Greg Morrisett (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Greg Morrisett, Career, Cyclone language groupQuote, Has Member: Greg Morrisett, Career, Cyclone language group
created the Cyclone programming language in 2002
John Thompson (inventor) (Wikipedia)
Has Member: John H. Thompson, Lead, LingoQuote, Has Member: John H. Thompson, Lead, Lingo
is the inventor of the Lingo programming language
Miller Puckette (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Miller Puckette, LeadQuote, Has Member: Miller Puckette, Lead
Puckette is best known for authoring Max, a visual programming language for music and multimedia
Andy Gavin (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Andy Gavin, Career, Lisp dialects, placementQuote, Has Member: Andy Gavin, Career, Lisp dialects, placement
Gavin developed two LISP dialects for use in game development
SPARK (programming language) (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Bernard Carré, History, first versionQuote, Has Member: Bernard Carré, History, first version
The first version of SPARK (based on Ada 83) was produced at the university, with UK Ministry of Defence sponsorship, by Bernard Carré and Trevor Jennings.
DRAKON (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Vladimir Parondzhanov, History, direction of developmentQuote, Has Member: Vladimir Parondzhanov, History, direction of development
Its development was directed by Vladimir Parondzhanov with the participation of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Academician Pilyugin Center, Moscow) and Russian Academy of Sciences (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics).
Programming Languages (strlen.com)
Has Member: Wouter van Oortmerssen, Programming LanguagesQuote, Has Member: Wouter van Oortmerssen, Programming Languages
One of my all time great hobbies is designing and implementing programming languages
Wikipedia: Rich Hickey
Has Member: Rich Hickey, Lead sectionQuote, Has Member: Rich Hickey, Lead section
known as the creator of the Clojure programming language
Wikipedia: Walter Bright
Has Member: Walter Bright, Lead sectionQuote, Has Member: Walter Bright, Lead section
who created the D programming language
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