Editing List of programmers (section)

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*[[Keith Packard]] – [[X Window System]]
*[[Larry Page]] – cofounded Google, Inc.
*[[Alexey Pajitnov]] – created game [[Tetris]] on [[Electronika 60]]
*[[Seymour Papert]] – [[Logo (programming language)]]
*[[David Park (computer scientist)|David Park]] (1935–1990) – first [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]] implementation, expert in fairness, program schemas, [[bisimulation]] in [[concurrent computing]]
*[[Mike Paterson]] – [[algorithm]]s, [[analysis of algorithms]] (complexity)
*[[Tim Paterson]] – authored [[86-DOS]] (QDOS)
*[[Markus Persson]] – created Minecraft
*[[Jeffrey Peterson]] – key [[free and open-source software]] architect, created [[Quepasa]]
*[[Charles Petzold]] – authored many [[Microsoft Windows]] programming books
*[[Simon Peyton Jones]] – [[functional programming]], [[Glasgow Haskell Compiler]], [[C--]]
*[[Rob Pike]] – wrote first bitmapped window system for Unix, cocreated [[UTF-8]] character encoding, authored text editor [[sam (program)|sam]] and programming environment [[Acme (text editor)|acme]], main author of [[Plan 9 from Bell Labs|Plan 9]] and [[Inferno (operating system)|Inferno]] operating systems, co-authored [[Go (programming language)]]
*[[Kent Pitman]] – technical contributor to the ANSI [[Common Lisp]] standard
*[[Robin Popplestone]] – [[COWSEL]] (renamed POP-1), [[POP-2]], [[POP-11]] languages, [[Poplog]] [[Integrated development environment|IDE]]; [[Freddy II]] robot
*[[Tom Preston-Werner]] – cofounded [[GitHub]]
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