List of Programmers - A

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  • Michael Abrash - Popularized Mode X for DOS. This allows for faster video refresh and square pixels.
  • Scott Adams - one of earliest developers of CP/M and DOS games
  • Leonard Adleman - co-creator of RSA algorithm (the A in the name stands for Adleman), coined the term computer virus
  • Alfred Aho - co-creator of AWK (the A in the name stands for Aho), and main author of famous Dragon book
  • JJ Allaire - creator of ColdFusion Application Server, ColdFusion Markup Language
  • Andrei Alexandrescu - author, expert C++, D languages
  • Paul Allen - Altair BASIC, Applesoft BASIC, co-founded Microsoft
  • Eric Allman - sendmail, syslog
  • Marc Andreessen - co-creator of Mosaic, co-founder of Netscape
  • Bill Atkinson - QuickDraw, HyperCard

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