Editing List of programmers (section)

==A==
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*[[Michael Abrash]] – [[program optimization]] and [[x86]] assembly language
*[[Scott Adams (game designer)|Scott Adams]] – series of text adventures beginning in the late 1970s
*[[Tarn Adams]] – [[Dwarf Fortress]]
*[[Leonard Adleman]] – co-created [[RSA (cryptosystem)|RSA]] algorithm (being the ''A'' in that name), coined the term ''computer virus''
*[[Alfred Aho]] – co-created [[AWK]] (being the ''A'' in that name), and main author of famous [[Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools]] (Dragon book)
*[[Andrei Alexandrescu]] – author, expert on languages [[C++]], [[D (programming language)|D]]
*[[Paul Allen]] – [[Altair BASIC]], [[Applesoft BASIC]], cofounded [[Microsoft]]
*[[Eric Allman]] – [[sendmail]], [[syslog]]
*[[Marc Andreessen]] – co-created [[Mosaic (web browser)|Mosaic]], cofounded [[Netscape]]
*[[Jeremy Ashkenas]] – [[CoffeeScript]] programming language and [[Backbone.js]]
*[[Bill Atkinson]] – [[QuickDraw]], [[HyperCard]]
*[[Lennart Augustsson]] – languages (Lazy [[ML (programming language)|ML]], Cayenne), compilers (HBC [[Haskell]], parallel Haskell front end, [[Bluespec]] [[SystemVerilog]] early), [[LPMud]] pioneer, [[NetBSD]] [[device driver]]s
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