Editing List of programmers (section)

==R==
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*[[Theo de Raadt]] – founding member of [[NetBSD]], founded [[OpenBSD]] and [[OpenSSH]]
*[[Brian Randell]] – [[ALGOL 60]], software [[fault tolerance]], [[dependability]], pre-1950 [[history of computing hardware]]
*[[T. V. Raman]] – specializes in accessibility research ([[Emacspeak]], ChromeVox (screen reader for [[Google Chrome]])
*[[Jef Raskin]] – started the [[Macintosh]] project in [[Apple Computer]], designed [[Canon Cat]] computer, developed [[Archy (software)|Archy]] (The Humane Environment) program
*[[Eric S. Raymond]] – [[Open Source movement]], authored [[fetchmail]]
*[[Hans Reiser]] – created [[ReiserFS]] file system
*[[John Resig]] – creator and lead developed [[jQuery]] JavaScript library
*[[Craig Reynolds (computer graphics)|Craig Reynolds]] – created [[boids]] computer graphics simulation
*[[John C. Reynolds]] – [[continuation]]s, definitional interpreters, [[defunctionalization]], Forsythe, Gedanken language, [[intersection type]]s, [[System F|polymorphic lambda calculus]], relational [[parametricity]], [[separation logic]], [[ALGOL]]
*[[Reinder van de Riet]] – Editor: ''Europe of Data and Knowledge Engineering'', COLOR-X event modeling language
*[[Dennis Ritchie]] – [[C (programming language)|C]], [[Unix]], [[Plan 9 from Bell Labs]], [[Inferno (operating system)|Inferno]]
*[[Ron Rivest]] – cocreated [[RSA (algorithm)|RSA]] algorithm (being the ''R'' in that name). created RC4 and MD5
*[[John Romero]] – [[first-person shooter]]s ''[[Doom (franchise)|Doom]]'', ''[[Quake (video game)|Quake]]''
*[[Blake Ross]] – co-authored [[Mozilla Firefox]]
*[[Douglas T. Ross]] – Automatically Programmed Tools ([[APT (programming language)|APT]]), [[Computer-aided design]], [[structured analysis and design technique]], [[ALGOL X]]
*[[Guido van Rossum]] – [[Python (programming language)|Python]]
*[[Philip Rubin]] – [[articulatory synthesis]] (ASY), [[sinewave synthesis]] (SWS), and [[HADES (software)|HADES]] signal processing system.
*[[Jeff Rulifson]] – lead programmer on the [[NLS (computer system)|NLS]] project
*[[Rusty Russell]] – created [[iptables]] for [[linux]]
*[[Steve Russell (computer scientist)|Steve Russell]] – first [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]] interpreter; original ''[[Spacewar!]]'' graphic video game
*[[Mark Russinovich]] – Sysinternals.com, Filemon, Regmon, Process Explorer, TCPView and RootkitRevealer
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