Editing List of programmers (section)

==W==
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*[[Eiiti Wada]] – [[ALGOL N]], [[IFIP Working Group 2.1|IFIP WG 2.1]] member, [[Japanese Industrial Standards]] (JIS) X 0208, 0212, [[Happy Hacking Keyboard]]
*[[John Walker (programmer)|John Walker]] – cofounded [[Autodesk]]
*[[Larry Wall]] – Warp (1980s space-war game), [[rn (newsreader)|rn]], [[patch (Unix)|patch]], [[Perl]]
*[[Bob Wallace (computer scientist)|Bob Wallace]] – author [[PC-Write]] word processor; considered [[shareware]] cocreator
*[[Chris Wanstrath]] – cofounded [[GitHub]], created the [[Atom (text editor)]] and the [[Mustache (template system)|Mustache template system]]
*[[John Warnock]] – created [[PostScript]]
*[[Robert Watson (computer scientist)|Robert Watson]] – [[FreeBSD]] network stack parallelism, [[TrustedBSD]] project and [[OpenBSM]]
*[[Joseph Henry Wegstein]] – [[ALGOL 58]], [[ALGOL 60]], [[IFIP Working Group 2.1|IFIP WG 2.1]] member, [[data processing]] [[technical standard]]s, [[fingerprint]] analysis
*[[Pei-Yuan Wei]] – authored [[ViolaWWW]], one of earliest graphical browsers
*[[Peter J. Weinberger]] – cocreated [[AWK]] (being the ''W'' in that name)
*[[Jim Weirich]] – created Rake, Builder, and [[RubyGems]] for [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]]; popular teacher and conference speaker
*[[Joseph Weizenbaum]] – created [[ELIZA]]
*[[David Wheeler (computer scientist)|David Wheeler]] – cocreated [[subroutine]]; designed [[WAKE (cipher)|WAKE]]; co-designed [[Tiny Encryption Algorithm]], [[XTEA]], [[Burrows–Wheeler transform]]
*[[Molly White (writer)|Molly White]] – [[HubSpot]]; creator of ''[[Web3 Is Going Just Great]]''
*[[Arthur Whitney (computer scientist)|Arthur Whitney]] – [[A+ (programming language)|A+]], [[K (programming language)|K]]
*[[why the lucky stiff]] – created libraries and writing for [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]], including quirky, popular ''[[Why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby]]'' to teach programming
*[[Adriaan van Wijngaarden]] – Dutch pioneer; ARRA, [[ALGOL]], [[IFIP Working Group 2.1|IFIP WG 2.1]] member
*[[Bruce Wilcox]] – created Computer Go, programmed [[NEMESIS Go Master]]
*[[Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur)|Evan Williams]] – created and cofounded language [[Logo (programming language)|Logo]]
*[[Roberta Williams|Roberta]] and [[Ken Williams (game developer)|Ken Williams]] – [[Sierra Entertainment]], ''[[King's Quest]]'', graphic adventure game
*[[Sophie Wilson]] – designed instruction set for [[ARM architecture family|Acorn RISC Machine]], authored [[BBC BASIC]]
*[[Dave Winer]] – developed [[XML-RPC]], Frontier scripting language
*[[Niklaus Wirth]] – [[ALGOL W]], [[IFIP Working Group 2.1|IFIP WG 2.1]] member, [[Pascal (programming language)|Pascal]], [[Modula-2]], [[Oberon (programming language)|Oberon]]
*[[Stephen Wolfram]] – created [[Mathematica]]
*[[Don Woods (programmer)|Don Woods]] – [[INTERCAL]], [[Colossal Cave Adventure]]
*[[Philip Woodward]] – [[ambiguity function]], [[sinc function]], [[Dirac comb|comb operator, rep operator]], [[ALGOL 68-R]]
*[[Steve Wozniak]] – ''[[Breakout (video game)|Breakout]]'', Apple [[Integer BASIC]], cofounded [[Apple Inc.]]
*[[Will Wright (game designer)|Will Wright]] – created the Sim City series, cofounded Maxis
*[[William Wulf]] – [[BLISS]] [[system programming language]] + [[optimizing compiler]], [[Hydra (operating system)|Hydra]] [[operating system]], [[Tartan Laboratories]]
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