Right now this list isn t very good Most of the people on it aren t researchers Walter Bright Yukihiro Matsumoto Guido van Rossum Brendan Eich Making a popular language doesn t make you a PL researcher I d be willing to make this a real list of PL researchers but before I waste the time I d like to know if anyone else thinks it is a good idea to even have this article Most of our articles covering PL researchers are roughly stubs