UNIX Contributors

The following table summarizes important contributors to evolution of UNIX:

Aho, Alfred	Coauthor of the AWK programming language and author of egrep
Bourne, Steven	Author of the Bourne shell, the ancestor of the standard shell in UNIX System V
Canaday, Rudd	Developer of the UNIX System file system, along with Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson
Cherry, Lorinda	Author of the Writer’s Workbench (WWB), coauthor of the eqn preprocessor, and coauthor of the bc and dc utilities
Honeyman, Peter	Developer of HoneyDanBer UUCP at Bell Laboratories in 1983 with David Nowitz and Brian Redman
Horton, Mark	Author of curses and terminfo, and a major contributor to the UUCP Mapping Project and the development of USENET
Joy, William	Creator of the vi editor and the C shell, as well as many BSD enhancements. Cofounder of Sun Microsystems
Kernighan, Brian	Coauthor of the C programming language and of the AWK programming language. Rewrote troff in the C language
Korn, David	Author of the Korn shell, a superset of the standard System V shell with many enhanced features, including command histories
Lesk, Mike	Developer of the UUCP System at Bell Laboratories in 1976 and author of the tbl preprocessor, ms macros, and lex
Mashey, John	Author of the early versions of the shell, which were later merged into the Bourne shell
Mcllroy, Doug	Developed the concept of pipes and wrote the spell and diff commands
Morris, Robert	Coauthor of the utilities bc and dc
Nowitz, David	Developer of HoneyDanBer UUCP at Bell Laboratories in 1983 with Peter Honeyman and Brian Redman
Ossanna, Joseph	Creator of the troff text formatting processor
Ousterhout, John	Developer of Tcl command language
Redman, Brian	Developer of HoneyDanBer UUCP at Bell Laboratories in 1983 with Peter Honeyman and David Nowitz
Ritchie, Dennis	Inventor of the UNIX Operating System, along with Ken Thompson, at Bell Laboratories. Inventor of the C language, along with Brian Kernighan
Scheifler, Robert	Mentor of the X Window System
Stallman, Richard	Developer of the programmable visual text editor emacs, and founder of GNU project and the Free Software Foundation
Stroustrup, Bjarne	Developer of the object-oriented C++ programming language
Tannenbaum, Andrew	Creator of Minix, a program environment that led to the development of Linux
Thompson, Ken	Inventor of the UNIX operating system, along with Dennis Ritchie, at Bell Laboratories
Torek, Chris	Developer from the University of Maryland who was one of the pioneers of BSD UNIX
Torvalds, Linus	Creator of the Linux operating system, an Intel personal computer-based variant of UNIX
Wall, Larry	Developer of the Perl programming language
Weinberger, Peter	Coauthor of the AWK programming language