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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: 40. Chapters: Edsger W. Dijkstra, Anders Hejlsberg, Niklaus Wirth, C. A. R. Hoare, Kristen Nygaard, John Backus, Robin Milner, Andrew D. Gordon, Dana Scott, Andrey Ershov, Peter Landin, Charles Leonard Hamblin, Christopher Strachey, Frances E. Allen, James Cordy, Guy L. Steele, Jr., Carlo Ghezzi, Klaus Samelson, Cynbe ru Taren, Barbara Jane Liskov, Bertrand Meyer, Jean Ichbiah, Amir Pnueli, Wally Feurzeig, Per Brinch Hansen, Simon Peyton Jones, Monica S. Lam, Daniel P. Friedman, Philip Wadler, George Necula, David Gries, David Turner, Gordon Plotkin, Peter Wegner, Luca Cardelli, Oscar Nierstrasz, Andrew Appel, John C. Reynolds, Peter H. Salus, Mordechai Ben-Ari, Harry Mairson, Erik Meijer, Xavier Leroy, Don Syme, Patrick Cousot, Karl Lieberherr, Susan L. Graham, Martin Odersky, Olivier Danvy, Matthias Felleisen, Richard Bird, List of programming language researchers, David Moon, Lennart Augustsson, Bernard Greenberg, Frederica Darema, John Michael Spivey, Robert Bruce Findler, John Wainwright, Greg Morrisett, Robert Harper, Isaac Nassi, Joe Stoy, Henry Baker, Roger Moore, Benjamin C. Pierce, Matthew Flatt, Jim Brown, John Hughes, Richard Fateman, R. Kent Dybvig, Richard O'Keefe, Richard Wexelblat, Frank Pfenning, Gregor Kiczales, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Mitchell Wand. Excerpt: Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (May 11, 1930 - August 6, 2002); Dutch pronunciation: ) was a Dutch computer scientist. He received the 1972 Turing Award for fundamental contributions to developing programming languages, and was the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin from 1984 until 2000. Shortly before his death in 2002, he received the ACM PODC Influential Paper Award in distributed computing for his work on self-stabilization of program computation. This annual award was renamed the Dijkstra Prize the following ye...
