Simon Tatham

Programmer, Software Developer

1977 –

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Who is Simon Tatham?

Simon Tatham is an English programmer known primarily for creating and maintaining PuTTY, a free software implementation of Telnet and SSH clients for Unix and Windows API platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. He is also well known as the original author of Netwide Assembler, and for his essay, "How to Report Bugs Effectively", which many software developers direct users to read before reporting bugs to them.

He also maintains a popular collection of small computer programs which implement one-player puzzle games. All of them run natively on Nintendo DS, Symbian S60, Unix, and Windows.

He attended Cambridge University, and currently works at ARM Limited.

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Born
May 3, 1977
Also known as
  • Тэтхем, Саймон
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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