Programme Language and their Developer

 Programme Language and their Developer

The following is list of researchers of programming language theory, design, implementation, and related areas.

• John Backus, leader of the team that developed FORTRAN, developer of BNF
• Friedrich L. Bauer, co-designer of ALGOL
• Kathleen Booth, designed and developed the first assembly language
• 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
• Brendan Eich, designer of JavaScript
• James Gosling, father of the Java programming language
• Ralph Griswold, designer of SNOBOL, SL5, and Icon
• Anders Hejlsberg, original author of Turbo Pascal, chief architect of C#
• Rich Hickey, designer of Clojure
• Grace Hopper, co-designer of COBOL
• Roberto Ierusalimschy, designer of Lua
• Simon Peyton Jones, lead developer of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler and major contributor to the design of the Haskell programming language
• Alan Kay, and Dan Ingalls, co-inventors of Smalltalk
• John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, designed and developed the first BASIC language
• Brian Kernighan, co-designer of AWK and AMPL
• Chris Lattner, designer of Swift
• Rasmus Lerdorf, father of PHP
• Xavier Leroy, chief designer of OCaml
• Yukihiro Matsumoto, designer of Ruby
• John McCarthy, designer of LISP
• Kristen Nygaard, co-inventor of Simula
• Martin Odersky, designer of Scala
• John Ousterhout, designer of Tcl
• Rob Pike, co-designer of Limbo and Go
• Cicely Popplewell, co-designer of software for Manchester Mark 1
• Dennis Ritchie, designer of C
• Matthias Felleisen, creator of Racket (programming language)
• 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
• Larry Wall, designer of Perl
• Philip Wadler, co-designer of Haskell
• Niklaus Wirth, designer of Pascal, Modula-2
• Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Language

 Information Courtesy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_language_researchers