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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Martin_%28author%29

another alternative:

Computing Legend, Dr. James Martin, dies at 79

Somehow that's not nearly enough.

Amazing that he was able to buy his own island and donate $100MM+ to Oxford University.

Its tough this guy was such a legend and so I thought "Creator of Rapid Application Development" would probably pique most people's interests amongst Hacker News' demographic.

I had also considered this:

Largest Benefactor to Oxford University, Dr. James Martin, dies at 79

Hi, this is a small nit about your comment: You say "... $100MM+ ..." but how is that different than "... $100M+ ..." ? If it's not different, then why double the "M"? Thanks! (Perhaps it's just a typo.)

Different areas have different conventions, leading to some confusion. Finance uses MM for a million, the physical sciences use M. In the the finance case 'M' comes from the Latin 'mille', meaning thousand, so MM means thousand thousand. In the sciences M means Mega (from the Greek meaning 'Great'), which is the SI prefix for 10^6

dagw answered this. "MM" is one convention for million, and somehow over the years I've adopted it.

Also coined the term 4GL.

Truly a legend.