Simon Tatham
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Simon Tatham (born May 3, 1977) is an English programmer known primarily for creating and maintaining PuTTY, a free software implementation of Telnet and SSH clients for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. He is also well-known for his work on NASM 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 Unix (GTK), Windows, Mac OS X and Nintendo DS.
He attended Cambridge University, and currently works at ARM.

