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The document provides brief biographies of ten influential computer scientists, highlighting their key contributions to programming languages and computing. Notable figures include Dennis Ritchie, creator of C; Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web; and Guido van Rossum, author of Python. Each individual's impact on technology and software development is emphasized, showcasing their lasting legacies.

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Er ica

The document provides brief biographies of ten influential computer scientists, highlighting their key contributions to programming languages and computing. Notable figures include Dennis Ritchie, creator of C; Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web; and Guido van Rossum, author of Python. Each individual's impact on technology and software development is emphasized, showcasing their lasting legacies.

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1.

) DENNIS RITCHIE
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist who created the C
programming language along with his long-time colleague, Ken Thomson. He is
credited for shaping and pioneering the digital era. Today, C programming is used
in several software applications, embedded system development, operating systems,
and has influenced most modern programming languages.
2.)TIM BERNERS-LEE
Sir Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee also known as “TimBL,” is a British computer
scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He is also credited
for the implementation of the first successful communication between a Hypertext
Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet in 1989.
3.) LINUS TORVALDS
Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish–American software engineer who is the creator
and, historically, the main developer of the Linux kernel. He also created Git in
2005 for the development of the Linux kernel, with other kernel developers
contributing to its initial development. Currently, he works as the project
coordinator.
4.) BJARNE STROUSTRUP
Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist who is credited for the creation
and development of the widely used and highly successful C++ programming language.
He also evolved C++, all by himself, by writing its early definitions, producing
its first implementation, formulating its design criteria, designing all its major
facilities, processing extension proposals for the standards committee and its
standard textbook.
5.) JAMES GOSLING
James Arthur Gosling is a Canadian computer scientist who is widely known for his
creation of the highly successful and commonly used Java programming language in
1994 as well as its original virtual machine and compiler. As of 2019, Java was one
of the most popular programming languages in use according to GitHub, particularly
for client-server web applications, with a reported 9 million developers.
6.) ANDERS HEJLSBERG
Anders Hejlsberg is a prominent Danish software engineer who co-designed several
popular and commercially successful programming languages and development tools. He
is the creator of the popular C# programming language. He was the original author
of Turbo Pascal and the chief architect of Delphi. He currently works for Microsoft
as the lead architect of C# and core developers on TypeScript.
7.) KEN THOMSON
Kenneth Lane Thompson, or simply “Ken” as he is called by the hacker community, is
an American pioneer of computer science. Thompson had designed and implemented the
original Unix operating system and also invented the B programming language (the
direct predecessor to the famous C programming language), and was one of the early
developers of the Plan 9 operating systems. Since 2006, Thompson has also co-
invented the Go programming language while working at Google.
8.) GUIDO VAN ROSSUM
Guido van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer who is the author of the popular
Python programming language that is widely used today. In the Python community, Van
Rossum is known as a “Benevolent Dictator For Life” (BDFL), meaning that he
continues to oversee the Python development process, making decisions where
necessary. Python consistently ranks as one of the most popular programming
languages.
9.) DONALD KNUTH
Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist and mathematician as well as a
Professor Emeritus (retired professor) at Stanford University. Knuth has been
dubbed as the “Father of the Analysis of Algorithms” as he has contributed to the
development of rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms and
systematized formal mathematical techniques for it. He has contributed to several
branches of theoretical computer science and has also created the Computer Modern
family of typefaces.
10.) JON SKEET
Jon Skeet is a software engineer known for having the highest reputation on the
question-and-answer website Stack Overflow. Skeet joined Stack Overflow in
September 2008 after reading about it in a blog post. Skeet became the highest
reputation user on the site by December and reached one million in reputation in
early 2018. His tenure has made him well-known on the site. He is a C# legend, won
the Microsoft MVP award several times and is also a Java developer, he actually
writes Java at Google. Skeet has written several books, notably C# in Depth, and is
the author of the Noda Time C# API. Skeet served on the board of directors of
the .NET Foundation from 2019 to 2020.

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