List of Programmers - B

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• John Backus - FORTRAN, BNF
• Richard Bartle - MUD, with Roy Trubshaw, creator of MUDs
• Brian Behlendorf - Apache
• Kent Beck - Created Extreme Programming and co-creator of JUnit
• Donald Becker - Linux Ethernet drivers, Beowulf clustering
• Doug Bell - Dungeon Master series of video games
• Fabrice Bellard - Creator of FFMPEG open codec library, QEMU virtualization tools
• Tim Berners-Lee - inventor of World Wide Web
• Daniel J. Bernstein - djbdns, qmail
• Sabeer Bhatia - Co-founded the Hotmail email service
• Eric Bina - co-creator of Mosaic web browser
• Marc Blank - co-creator of Zork
• Joshua Bloch - core Java language designer, lead the Java collections framework project
• Grady Booch - Co-creator of Unified Modeling Language
• Bert Bos - author of Argo web browser, co-author of Cascading Style Sheets
• Stephen Bourne - Creator of Bourne shell
• David Bradley - coder on the IBM PC project team who wrote the Control-Alt-Delete keyboard handler, embedded in all PC-compatible BIOSes
• Andrew Braybrook - video games Paradroid and Uridium
• Larry Breed - co-developer of APL\360
• Jack E. Bresenham - creator of Bresenham's line algorithm
• Dan Bricklin - co-creator of VisiCalc, the first personal spreadsheet program
• Walter Bright - Digital Mars, First C++ compiler, author of D (programming language).
• Richard Brodie - Microsoft Word
• Andries Brouwer - Hack, former maintainer of man pager man, Linux kernel hacker
• Danielle Bunten Berry (Dani Bunten) - M.U.L.E., multiplayer video game
• Dries Buytaert - Creator of Drupal