the first high-level programming language, Plankalkül (which influenced ALGOL 58). Kristen Nygaard, pioneered object-oriented programming, co-invented Simula. Larry Wall, creator of the Perl programming language (see Perl and Raku). Martin Odersky, creator of Scala, and previously a contributor to the design of Java. Martin Richards developed the BCPL programming language, forerunner of the B and C languages. Nathaniel Rochester, inventor of first assembler (IBM 701). Niklaus Wirth, inventor of Pascal, Modula and Oberon. Ole-Johan Dahl, pioneered object-oriented programming, co-invented Simula. Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of PHP. Rich Hickey, creator of Clojure. Jean Paoli, co-creater of XML Robert Gentleman, co-creator of R. Robert Griesemer, co-creator of Go. Robin Milner, inventor of ML, and sharing credit for Hindley–Milner polymorphic type inference. Rob Pike, co-creator of Go, Inferno (operating system) and Plan 9 (operating system) Operating System co-author. Ross Ihaka, co-creator of R. Ryan Dahl, creator of Node.js. Stanley Cohen, inventor of Speakeasy, which was created with an OOPS, object-oriented programming system, the first instance, in 1964. Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica. Terry A. Davis, creator of HolyC. Walter Bright, creator of D. Yukihiro Matsumoto, creator of Ruby. See also ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference History of compiler construction History of computing hardware Programming language Timeline of computing Timeline of programming languages List of programming languages List of programmers References Further reading Rosen, Saul, (editor), Programming Systems and Languages, McGraw-Hill, 1967. Sammet, Jean E., Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals, Prentice-Hall, 1969. Richard L. Wexelblat (ed.): History of Programming Languages, Academic Press 1981. Thomas J. Bergin and Richard G. Gibson (eds.): History of Programming Languages, Addison Wesley, 1996. Sebesta, Robert W. Concepts of programming languages. Pearson Education India, 2004. External links History and evolution of programming languages Graph of programming language history History of computing History of computer science