List of Programmers - S

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  • Bob Sabiston - Rotoshop, interpolating rotoscope animation software
  • Muni Sakya - Nepalese software
  • Carl Sassenrath - Amiga, REBOL
  • Chris Sawyer - Developer of Roller Coaster Tycoon and the Transport Tycoon series
  • Bill Schelter - GNU Maxima, GNU Common Lisp
  • Randal L. Schwartz - Just another Perl hacker
  • Adi Shamir - co-creator of RSA algorithm (the S in the name stands for Shamir)
  • Mike Shaver - Founding member of Mozilla Organization
  • Cliff Shaw - IPL, the first AI language
  • Zed Shaw - Wrote the Mongrel Web Server, for Ruby web applications.
  • Emily Short - prolific writer of Interactive fiction and co-developer of Inform version 7
  • Jacek Sieka - Developer of DC++ an open-source, peer-to-peer file-sharing client
  • Ken Silverman - creator of Duke Nukem 3D's graphics engine
  • Charles Simonyi - Hungarian notation, Microsoft Word
  • Colin Simpson - developer of CircuitLogix simulation software
  • Rich Skrenta - co-founder of Open Directory Project
  • Matthew Smith - Sinclair ZX Spectrum games, including Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy
  • Henry Spencer - C News, Regex
  • Joel Spolsky - Co-founder of Fog Creek Software and Stack Overflow
  • Quentin Stafford-Fraser - author of original VNC viewer, first Windows VNC server, client program for the first webcam
  • Richard Stallman - Emacs, GCC, GDB, founder and pioneer of GNU Project, terminal-independent I/O pioneer on ITS, Lisp machine manual
  • Guy Steele - Common Lisp, Scheme, Java
  • Alexander Stepanov - Creator of Standard Template Library
  • Ludvig Strigeus - Creator of uTorrent, OpenTTD, ScummVM and the technology behind Spotify
  • Bjarne Stroustrup - Creator of C++
  • Zeev Suraski - co-creator of PHP language
  • Gerald Jay Sussman - Scheme
  • Herb Sutter - Chair of the ISO C++ standards committee and C++ expert.
  • Tim Sweeney - The Unreal engine, UnrealScript, ZZT

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