programming languages inventors

Dennis Ritchie           

American computer scientist

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist. He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the UNIX operating system. 

Bjarne Stroustrup

Danish computer scientist

Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist, who is most notable for the creation and development of the widely used C++ programming language.

James Gosling

Computer scientist

James Arthur Gosling, OC is a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the founder and lead designer behind the Java programming language.

Larry Wall

American computer programmer

Larry Wall is an American computer programmer and author. He created the Perl programming language.