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- Ole-Johan Dahl - co-creator of SIMULA
- James Duncan Davidson - creator of Tomcat, now part of Jakarta Project
- L. Peter Deutsch - Ghostscript, Assembler for PDP-1, XDS-940 timesharing system, QED original co-author
- Edsger Dijkstra - contributions to ALGOL, Dijkstra's algorithm, Goto Statement Considered Harmful
- Matt Dillon - programmer of various software including DICE and DragonflyBSD
- Martin Dougiamas - creator and lead developer of Moodle
- Adam Dunkels - author of Contiki operating system, the lwIP and uIP embedded TCP/IP stacks, inventor of protothreads
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