The most influential software programmers of all time are the innovative and brilliant men and women who each contributed something ground-breaking to the software programming world. These are the pioneers of programming all having created, evolved or improved upon the foundations of modern computer programming. Plain and simple, without these software programming legends, computers, the Internet and many of your favorite programs would never exist.
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1941
“ C programming language creator „
1969
“ Linus kernel creator „
1938
“ Father of the analysis of algorithms „
1955
“ HTML and world wide web inventor „
1950
“ C++ creator „
1942
“ UNIX co-creator „
1943
“ UNIX co-creator „
1955
“ Java creator „
1953
“ GNU Project creator „
1956
“ Python creator „
1955
“ Microsoft co-founder „
1934
“ Pascal designer „
1973
“ Google co-founder „
1815
“ World's first computer programmer „
1975
“ BitTorrent creator „
1906
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“ COBOL creator „
1968
“ PHP creator „
1973
“ Google co-founder „
1970
“ id Software co-founder „
1954
“ Perl creator „
1961
“ JavaScript creator „
1962
added by: arun
“ MySQL creator „
1954
added by: HaydenJoy
1965
added by: GeneMarcAngeloJr
“ Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto is the creator of the Ruby language. „
1924
“ FORTRAN creator „
1957
“ Introduced multitasking to personal computers „
1927
added by: JeffDarcy
1962
added by: evilgrin32
“ Creator of the ZIP archive format „
1930
added by: JeffDarcy
