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Ward Cunningham

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Howard G. Cunningham

is a programmer and is popularly known as the inventor of the first wiki, which is called

WikiWikiWeb. He is also known for his pioneering work in patterns and Extreme

Programming. He started programming WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the Web site of his software consultancy Cunningham & Cunningham as an add-on to the

Portland Pattern Repository. Cunningham, known in some software circles simply as Ward, currently lives in

Beaverton, Oregon, southwest of Portland.



Ward CunninghamIdeas and inventions



Cunningham is well-known for a few

widely disseminated ideas which he originated and developed. Among these, the

most famous are the wiki, and many patterns in the field of software patterns, including the collection of

patterns that later became known as "Extreme Programming" or

"XP."

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Patterns and Extreme Programming

Cunningham is also well known for his

contributions to the developing practice of object-oriented programming, in particular, the use of

pattern languages, and  is also a significant contributor to Extreme Programming, a

software

development methodology. A great deal of this work was carried out in the

first wiki site itself. His most famous quote is probably, "What's the

simplest thing that could possibly work?"

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