Editing List of programmers (section)

==K==
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*[[Poul-Henning Kamp]] – [[MD5]] password hash algorithm, FreeBSD [[GEOM]] and [[GBDE]], part of [[Unix File System|UFS2]], [[FreeBSD Jail]]s, [[malloc]] and the [[Beerware]] license
*[[Mitch Kapor]] – [[Lotus 1-2-3]], founded [[Lotus Development Corporation]]
*[[Phil Katz]] – created [[Zip (file format)]], authored [[PKZIP]]
*[[Ted Kaehler]] – contributions to [[Smalltalk]], [[Squeak]], [[HyperCard]]
*[[Alan Kay]] – [[Smalltalk]], [[Dynabook]], [[Object-oriented programming]], [[Squeak]]
*[[Mel Kaye]] – [[LGP-30]] and [[RPC-4000]] machine code programmer at [[Royal McBee]] in the 1950s, famed as "[[Real Programmer]]" in [[the Story of Mel]]
*[[Stan Kelly-Bootle]] – [[Manchester Mark 1]], ''[[The Devil's DP Dictionary]]''
*[[John G. Kemeny|John Kemeny]] – cocreated [[BASIC]]
*[[Brian Kernighan]] – cocreated [[AWK]] (being the ''K'' in that name), authored [[ditroff]] text-formatting tool
*[[Gary Kildall]] – [[CP/M]], [[MP/M]], [[BIOS]], [[PL/M]], also known for work on [[data-flow analysis]], [[binary recompiler]]s, multitasking operating systems, graphical user interfaces, disk caching, [[CD-ROM]] file system and data structures, early multi-media technologies, founded [[Digital Research]] (DRI)
*[[Tom Knight (scientist)|Tom Knight]] – [[Incompatible Timesharing System]]
*[[Jim Knopf]] – a.k.a. Jim Button, author [[PC-File]] flatfile database; cocreated [[shareware]]
*[[Donald E. Knuth]] – [[TeX]], [[CWEB]], [[Metafont]], ''[[The Art of Computer Programming]]'', [[Concrete Mathematics]]
*[[Andrew Koenig (programmer)|Andrew R. Koenig]] – co-authored books on [[C (programming language)|C]] and [[C++]] and former Project Editor of ISO/ANSI standards committee for C++
*[[Gennady Korotkevich]] - Competitive programmer, first to break the 3900 barrier on [[Codeforces]]
*[[Cornelis H. A. Koster]] – ''Report on the Algorithmic Language [[ALGOL 68]]'', [[ALGOL 68#transput: Input and output|ALGOL 68 transput]]
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