Programming Languages and Their Developers
No. Programming Language Developer
1 ALGOL Friedrich Bauer
2 AMPL Brian Kernighan
3 Assembly Language Kathleen Booth
4 AWK Brian Kernighan
1) John Kemeny
5 BASIC
2) Thomas Kurtz
6 B Language Ken Thompson
7 C Language Dennis Ritchie
8 C++ Bjarne Stroustrup
9 C# Anders Hejlsberg
10 Clojure Rich Hickey
11 COBOL Grace Murray Hopper
12 D Language Walter Bright
13 FORTRAN John Backus
14 Fortress Guy Lewis Steele Jr
15 F# Don Syme
1) Rob Pike
16 GO Language
2) Ken Thompson
17 Haskell Philip Wadler
18 Icon Ralph Griswold
19 Java James Gosling
20 JavaScript Brendan Eich
21 Limbo Rob Pike
22 Lisp John McCarthy
23 Lua Roberto Ierusalimschy
24 Modula-2 Niklaus Wirth
25 Manchester Mark 1 Cicely Popplewell
26 Mathematica Stephen Wolfram
27 Newspeak Gilad Bracha
28 OCaml Xavier Leroy
29 Pascal Niklaus Wirth
30 Perl Larry Wall
31 PHP Rasmus Lerdorf
32 Prolog Alain Colmerauer
33 Python Guido van Rossum
No. Programming Language Developer
1) Ross Ihaka
34 R Language
2) Robert Gentleman
35 Racket Matthias Felleisen
36 Ruby Yukihiro Matsumoto
37 Scala Martin Odersky
1) Gerald Jay Sussman
38 Scheme
2) Guy Lewis Steele Jr
1) Ole-Johan Dahl
39 Simula
2) Kristen Nygaard
40 SL5 Ralph Griswold
1) Alan Kay
41 Smalltalk
2) Dan Ingalls
42 SNOBOL Ralph Griswold
43 Swift Chris Lattner
44 Tcl John Ousterhout
45 Turbo Pascal Anders Hejlsberg
46 Wolfram Language Stephen Wolfram