Yukihiro Matsumoto: How Ruby Made Programming Joyful Again
On December 21, 1995, Yukihiro Matsumoto posted a message to the Japanese newsgroup comp.lang.misc announcing the public release of Ruby 0.95. The post was written in Japanese, and…
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Alan Turing: The Father of Theoretical Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
On June 8, 1954, a cleaning woman found Alan Turing dead in his bed at his home in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England. He was 41 years old. An inquest…
Rasmus Lerdorf: How One Developer’s Personal Toolkit Became PHP โ The Language That Runs the Web
In the summer of 1994, a 26-year-old Danish-Canadian programmer named Rasmus Lerdorf wrote a set of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) binaries in C to track visits to his…
Brian Kernighan: Co-Author of The C Programming Language and the Voice of Unix
In 1978, a slim book with a plain white cover appeared on bookstore shelves. Titled The C Programming Language, it was just 228 pages long. Its authors were…
Chris Lattner: The Architect Behind LLVM, Swift, and the Modern Compiler Stack
On June 2, 2014, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference opened with a surprise that sent shockwaves through the programming world. Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering,…
Niklaus Wirth: The Creator of Pascal and Champion of Structured Programming
In February 1970, Niklaus Wirth published the first report on a new programming language called Pascal. Named after the 17th-century French mathematician Blaise Pascal, the language was designed…
Rob Pike: Co-Creator of Go, UTF-8, and Decades of Systems Innovation at Bell Labs
On September 21, 2007, Rob Pike sent an email to Robert Griesemer and Ken Thompson with the subject line “a]language.” Attached was a rough sketch of ideas for…
John Backus: The Creator of Fortran and Pioneer of High-Level Programming
On April 15, 1957, a team at IBM led by John Backus released Fortran I for the IBM 704 computer. The product of nearly three years of intense…
Graydon Hoare: How Rust Brought Memory Safety to Systems Programming
In 2006, a 29-year-old software engineer at Mozilla named Graydon Hoare started a personal side project. Frustrated by a recurring crash in an elevator’s software controller in his…