Editing List of programmers (section)

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*[[Andre LaMothe]] – created XGameStation, one of world's first video game console development kits
*[[Leslie Lamport]] – [[LaTeX]]
*[[Butler Lampson]] – [[QED (text editor)|QED]] original co-author
*[[Peter Landin]] – [[ISWIM]], [[J operator]], [[SECD machine]], [[off-side rule]], [[syntactic sugar]], [[ALGOL]], [[IFIP Working Group 2.1|IFIP WG 2.1]] member
*[[Tom Lane (computer scientist)|Tom Lane]] – main author of [[libjpeg]], major developer of [[PostgreSQL]]
*[[Sam Lantinga]] – created [[Simple DirectMedia Layer]] (SDL)
*[[Richard H. Lathwell|Dick Lathwell]] – codeveloped [[APL (programming language)|APL]]\360
*[[Chris Lattner]] – main author of [[LLVM]] project
*[[Samuel J. Leffler]] – [[Berkeley Software Distribution|BSD]], [[HylaFAX|FlexFAX]], [[LibTIFF]], [[Comparison of open-source wireless drivers#FreeBSD|FreeBSD Wireless Device Drivers]]
*[[Rasmus Lerdorf]] – original created [[PHP]]
*[[Michael Lesk]] – [[Lex (software)|Lex]]
*[[Gordon Letwin]] – architected [[OS/2]], authored [[High Performance File System]] (HPFS)
*[[Jochen Liedtke]] – [[microkernel]] [[operating system]]s [[Eumel]], [[L3 microkernel|L3]], [[L4 microkernel family|L4]]
*[[Charles H. Lindsey]] – [[IFIP Working Group 2.1|IFIP WG 2.1]] member, ''Revised Report on [[ALGOL 68]]''
*[[Håkon Wium Lie]] – co-authored [[Cascading Style Sheets]]
*[[Mike Little]] - co-authored [[WordPress]]
*[[Yanhong Annie Liu]] – [[programming language]]s, [[algorithm]]s, program design, [[program optimization]], [[software]] systems, optimizing, analysis, and transformations, intelligent systems, [[distributed computing]], [[computer security]], [[IFIP Working Group 2.1|IFIP WG 2.1]] member
*[[Robert Love]] – [[Linux kernel]] developer
*[[Ada Lovelace]] – first programmer (of [[Charles Babbage]]s' [[Analytical Engine]])
*[[Al Lowe]] – created ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]]'' series
*[[David Luckham]] – [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]], [[Automated theorem proving]], Stanford [[Pascal (programming language)|Pascal]] Verifier, [[Complex event processing]], [[Rational Software]] cofounder ([[Ada (programming language)|Ada]] [[compiler]])
*[[Hans Peter Luhn]] – hash-coding, linked list, searching and sorting binary tree
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