List of Programmers - W

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• Larry Wall - Warp (1980s space-war game), rn, patch, Perl
• Bob Wallace - author PC-Write word processor; considered a co-creator of shareware
• John Walker - co-founder of Autodesk
• John Warnock - creator of PostScript
• Robert Watson - FreeBSD network stack parallelism, TrustedBSD project and OpenBSM
• Pei-Yuan Wei - author of Viola, one of earliest graphical browsers
• Peter J. Weinberger - co-creator of AWK (the W in the name stands for Weinberger)
• Andrew Welch - author of Maelstrom, Snapz Pro; founder of Ambrosia Software
• David Wheeler - co-creator of subroutine; designer of WAKE; co-designer of Tiny Encryption Algorithm, XTEA, Burrows-Wheeler transform.
• Arthur Whitney - A+, K
• Bruce Wilcox - creator of Computer Go, programmed NEMESIS Go Master.
• Evan Williams Creator and co-founder of Twitter
• Roberta and Ken Williams -- Sierra Entertainment, King's Quest, graphic adventure game
• Sophie Wilson - Designer of instruction set for Acorn RISC Machine, author of BBC BASIC.
• Dave Winer - developed XML-RPC, Frontier scripting language
• Niklaus Wirth - Pascal, Modula-2, Oberon
• Stephen Wolfram - creator of Mathematica
• Don Woods - INTERCAL, Colossal Cave Adventure
• Steve Wozniak - Breakout, Apple Integer BASIC, co-founder of Apple Inc.
• Will Wright - Created the Sim City series and co-founded Maxis