Sviatoslav Pestov

Name: Sviatoslav (Slava) Leonidovich Pestov

Born: Unknown, in Tomsk, Russia

Computer-related contributions

• Created Factor as a scripting language for a video game which was later incorporated into Java.
• Began developing jEdit (a popular text editor) in 1998, but left the project in 2006, handing it over to the free software community.