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Software Tools and Development Environments

This group gathers pioneers of software and its engineering whose primary contribution was a tool, library, framework or environment that developers use to write, test, build, package or run software, including integrated development environments, version control systems, build tools, testing and debugging frameworks, and widely used application software such as spreadsheets and web browsers built by software engineers. It follows the Software Development Techniques and related tool support headings of the ACM Computing Classification System under Software and its engineering. Their shared work is the practical apparatus of software construction, as distinct from a language, its compiler, or the process methodology that governs how a team uses these tools.

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Software Tools and Development Environments
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Abhik Roychoudhury

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Alexander Stepanov

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Angie Jones

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Annie Easley

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Bob Frankston

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Brian Behlendorf

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Bryan Cantrill

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Cicely Popplewell

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Dan Bricklin

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David Bohnett

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David F. Bacon

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David Heinemeier Hansson

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David Korn

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David Musser

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Dawson Engler

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Diomidis Spinellis

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Dorothy Vaughan

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Eric Allman

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Eric Bina

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Erich Gamma

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Fernando Perez

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Geoff Hill

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Glenn Fowler

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Jeffrey Snover

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Juliana Rotich

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Kiem-Phong Vo

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Klara Dan von Neumann

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Landon Curt Noll

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Leonardo Chiariglione

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Lisa Gelobter

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Maciej Stachowiak

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Marc Andreessen

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Marlyn Wescoff

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Michael Kölling

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Mitchell Baker

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Mitchell Kapor

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Nico Habermann

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Nicola Pellow

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Pei-Yuan Wei

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Priscilla Fuller

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Randy Terbush

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Raymond Ozzie

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Rob Hartill

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Ruth Lichterman

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Ryan Dahl

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Sebastian Elbaum

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Sergiy Vilkomir

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Stuart Feldman

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Walter F. Tichy

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Wang Xuan

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Warren Teitelman

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Yuanyuan Zhou

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1. Wikipedia: Integrated development environment
Wikimedia FoundationIntegrated development environment, History section, Maestro I sentence
Quote, Integrated development environment, History section, Maestro I sentence
Maestro was arguably the world leader in this field during the 1970s and 1980s.
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David Musser (Wikipedia)
Has Member: David Musser, Lead
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creation of the C++ Standard Template Library (STL)
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Landon Curt Noll (source article)
Has Member: Landon Curt Noll, Lead
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is a co-inventor of the Fowler Noll Vo hash function
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FNV Hash, history and use (Landon Curt Noll)
Has Member: Glenn Fowler, Lead
Quote, Has Member: Glenn Fowler, Lead
The basis of the FNV hash algorithm was taken from an idea sent
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Fowler-Noll-Vo hash function (source article)
Has Member: Kiem-Phong Vo, Lead
Quote, Has Member: Kiem-Phong Vo, Lead
created by Glenn Fowler, Landon Curt Noll, and Kiem-Phong Vo
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Jeffrey Snover (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Jeffrey Snover, Lead paragraph
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the inventor of PowerShell, an object-based scripting language and command line shell for system administration and automation.
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