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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 63. Chapters: Edsger W. Dijkstra, Donald Knuth, Anders Hejlsberg, Niklaus Wirth, Stephen Wolfram, Grace Hopper, Ole-Johan Dahl, Dennis Ritchie, Seymour Papert, Kristen Nygaard, Bjarne Stroustrup, Brian Kernighan, James Gosling, Konrad Zuse, Larry Wall, John Backus, Alan Kay, Peter Naur, Yukihiro Matsumoto, John Ousterhout, Gerald Jay Sussman, Robin Milner, Alfred Aho, Paul Graham, Kenneth E. Iverson, Richard Stallman, Anthony James Barr, John McCarthy, Ken Thompson, Carl Sassenrath, Charles Leonard Hamblin, John Bridges, Christopher Strachey, Guido van Rossum, Hal Abelson, Mike Cowlishaw, John George Kemeny, Guy L. Steele, Jr., Klaus Samelson, Friedrich L. Bauer, Barbara Jane Liskov, Bertrand Meyer, David J. Farber, Jacob T. Schwartz, Louis Hodes, Jean Ichbiah, Patrick Naughton, Charles H. Moore, Ralph Griswold, Roger Hui, Alan Perlis, James G. Mitchell, Aad van Wijngaarden, Brad Cox, Rob Pike, Rasmus Lerdorf, Heinz Rutishauser, Gul Agha, David Turner, Stephen R. Bourne, John Chambers, Thomas Eugene Kurtz, Jean E. Sammet, Peter J. Weinberger, Phyllis Fox, Alain Colmerauer, Xavier Leroy, Andy Wellings, Walter Bright, Don Syme, David Luckham, Benoit Minisini, Martin Odersky, List of programming language researchers, David H. Munro, Arthur Whitney, Martin Richards, Robert Fourer, Roberto Ierusalimschy, Richard Merrill. Excerpt: Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often shortened to rms, is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and he has been the project's lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he initiated the free software movement; in October 1985 he founded the Free Software Foundation. Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft, and he is the main author of several...
