Editing List of programmers (section)

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*[[Khaled Mardam-Bey]] – created mIRC (Internet Relay Chat Client)
*[[Simon Marlow]] – [[Haskell]] developer, book author; co-developer: [[Glasgow Haskell Compiler]], Haxl remote data access [[Library (computing)|library]]
*[[Robert C. Martin]] – authored ''Clean Code'', ''The Clean Coder'', leader of Clean Code movement, signatory on the [[Agile Manifesto]]
*[[John Mashey]] – authored [[PWB shell]], also called Mashey shell
*[[Yukihiro Matsumoto]] "Matz" – [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]] language
*[[Conor McBride]] – researches [[type theory]], [[functional programming]]; cocreated [[Epigram (programming language)]] with James McKinna; member [[IFIP Working Group 2.1]] on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi
*[[John McCarthy (computer scientist)|John McCarthy]] – [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]], [[ALGOL]], [[IFIP Working Group 2.1|IFIP WG 2.1]] member, [[artificial intelligence]]
*[[Craig McClanahan]] – original author [[Jakarta Struts]], architect of [[Tomcat Catalina]] servlet container
*[[Daniel D. McCracken]] – professor at [[City College of New York|City College]] and authored ''Guide to [[ALGOL|Algol]] Programming'', ''Guide to [[COBOL|Cobol]] Programming'', ''Guide to [[Fortran]] Programming'' (1957)
*[[Scott A. McGregor]] – architect and development team lead of [[Microsoft]] [[Windows 1.0]], co-authored [[X Window System]] version 11, and developed Cedar Viewers Windows System at [[PARC (company)|Xerox PARC]]
*[[Douglas McIlroy]] – [[Macro (computer science)|macros]], [[pipes and filters]], concept of [[software componentry]], [[Unix]] tools (spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, tr, etc.)
*[[Marshall Kirk McKusick]] – [[Berkeley Software Distribution]] (BSD), work on [[Unix File System|FFS]], implemented [[soft updates]]
*[[Sid Meier]] – author, ''[[Civilization (series)|Civilization]]'' and ''[[Railroad Tycoon]]'', cofounded [[MicroProse]]
*[[Bertrand Meyer]] – [[Eiffel (programming language)|Eiffel]], ''[[Object-oriented design|Object-oriented Software Construction]]'', [[design by contract]]
*[[Bob Miner]] – co-created [[Oracle Database]], cofounded [[Oracle Corporation]]
*[[Jeff Minter]] – psychedelic, and often [[llama]]-related [[video game]]s
*[[James G. Mitchell]] – [[WATFIV|WATFOR]] compiler, [[Mesa (programming language)]], [[Spring (operating system)]], [[ARM architecture family|ARM architecture]]
*[[Arvind (computer scientist)|Arvind Mithal]] – [[formal verification]] of large [[digital system]]s, developing dynamic [[dataflow architecture]]s, [[parallel computing]] [[programming language]]s (Id, pH), compiling on parallel machines
*[[Petr Mitrichev]] – [[competitive programming|competitive programmer]]
*[[Cleve Moler]] – co-authored [[LINPACK]], [[EISPACK]], and [[MATLAB]] 
*[[Lou Montulli]] – created [[Lynx (browser)|Lynx]] browser, [[HTTP cookie|cookies]], the blink tag, server push and client pull, HTTP proxying, HTTP over SSL, browser integration with animated GIFs, founding member of HTML working group at [[W3C]]
*[[Bram Moolenaar]] – authored text-editor [[Vim (text editor)|Vim]]
*[[David A. Moon]] – [[Maclisp]], [[ZetaLisp]]
*[[Charles H. Moore]] – created [[Forth (programming language)|Forth]] language
*[[Roger Moore (computer scientist)|Roger Moore]] – co-developed [[APL (programming language)|APL]]\360, created [[IPSANET]], cofounded [[I. P. Sharp Associates]]
*[[Matt Mullenweg]] – co-authored [[WordPress]]
*[[Boyd Munro]] – Australian developed [[Grasp (spooler)|GRASP]], owns SDI, one of earliest software development companies
*[[Mike Muuss]] – authored [[Ping (networking utility)|ping]], network tool to detect hosts
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