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The names behind the languages

If we're going to continue to spill blood in these language wars, it's important that we all know who our generals are (and who our enemy generals are). Feel free to offer corrections or extensions to the list. C - Dennis Ritchie C++ -  Bjarne Stroustrup Forth -  Charles H. Moore Lisp - John McCarthy Perl - Larry Wall   PHP -  Rasmus Lerdorf Python -  Guido van Rossum Ruby -  Yukihiro Matsumoto Tcl -  John K. Ousterhout