Alan Kay created the Smalltalk programming language in the 1970s while working at Xerox PARC.

Chris Lattner created the Swift programming language while working at Apple in the early 2010s.

Edgar F. Codd is credited with creating the SQL programming language while working at IBM in the 1970s.

Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman created the R programming language in the mid-1990s.

Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, and Robert Griesemer created the Go programming language at Google in the late 2000s.

Larry Wall created the Perl programming language in the mid-1980s while working as a programmer at Unisys.

James Gosling is credited with creating the Java programming language while working at Sun Microsystems in the 1990s.

Roberto Ierusalimschy, Waldemar Celes, and Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo created the Lua programming language at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in the early 1990s.

Yukihiro Matsumoto, also known as "Matz," created the Ruby programming language in the mid-1990s.

Bjarne Stroustrup is credited with creating the C++ programming language in the early 1980s.