| Brian Kernighan: | AMPL |
| Microsoft: | ASP |
| Alfred V. Aho: | AWK |
| S. Tucker Taft: | Ada |
| Chet Ramey: | BASH |
| Steve Bourne: | BourneShell |
| Bjarne Stroustrup: | C++ |
| Grace Hopper: | COBOL |
| Anders Hejlsberg: | C# |
| Walter Bright: | D |
| Joe Armstrong: | Erlang |
| Charles H. Moore: | Forth |
| Simon Peyton-Jones: | Haskell |
| Don Woods: | INTERCAL |
| Brendan Eich: | JavaScript |
| Roberto Ierusalimschy: | Lua |
| Luca Cardelli: | Modula-3 |
| Michael Widenius: | MySQL |
| Guido van Rossum: | Python |
| Martin Odersky: | Scala |
| Stephen C. Johnson: | YACC |