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Ob1
May 17th, 2006, 01:39 AM
The best ones in my opinion.

Dennis Ritchie creator of C

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b398/thegreatsamurai/Dennis_Ritchie.jpg

Bjarne Stroustrup creator of C++

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b398/thegreatsamurai/91-10608-EM.jpg

Guido van Rossum creator of Python

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b398/thegreatsamurai/200px-Guido_van_Rossum.jpg

Larry Wall creator of Perl

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b398/thegreatsamurai/Larry_wall.jpg

James Gosling creator of Java

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b398/thegreatsamurai/gosling.jpg

Yukihiro Matsumoto creator of Ruby

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b398/thegreatsamurai/matz-beard.jpg

Linus Torvalds creator of Linux

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b398/thegreatsamurai/torvalds_190.jpg
isnellgrove
May 17th, 2006, 01:35 PM
John Carmack, creator of DOOM and Quake
daneel_olivaw
May 17th, 2006, 02:23 PM
I'd say.. Peter Norton and Bruce Eckel (author of Thinking in Java #1 and sequels, etc).. but I'm not so fond of having an idol-programmer to refer to :neutral:
Gustav
May 17th, 2006, 02:27 PM
Richard Stallman of course :)
asimon
May 17th, 2006, 02:36 PM
What, no Mark Shuttleworth, creator of Ubuntu? ;)

http://www.africaninspace.com/images/gallery/4526.jpg
Azrael
May 17th, 2006, 04:41 PM
What about Dijkstra?
daneel_olivaw
May 17th, 2006, 06:24 PM
...well let's add Kowalsky too then :P
mjm115
May 17th, 2006, 07:09 PM
William Henry Gates III

\\:D/

:^o

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/TIME_cover_Persons_of_the_Year_2005.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/17/Bill_gates-mugshot.jpg
daganu
May 17th, 2006, 09:31 PM
Whoever has a beard (glasses a plus)
rplantz
May 17th, 2006, 10:10 PM
Me! Not saying I'm the best, but I do like myself. I haven't even met the others listed above. Well, I met Bruce Eckels once. He's a very nice man. But I'll still take #1. :)
Lord Illidan
May 17th, 2006, 10:24 PM
Whoever has a beard (glasses a plus)


Do I qualify then? I have a 1.25 cm beard and nice thick glasses.. hehe.

What about Linus Torvalds?
I have great respect for that guy, but I think he can be slightly temperemental... still... he is a genius.
yaaarrrgg
May 18th, 2006, 04:29 AM
Course, a lot of modern video games are just footnotes to Pac Man (running around a maze, collecting things, and fighting monsters, to get to the next level). I think the game was a masterpiece.

Iwatani Toru - Game Designer
Hideyuki Mokajima - Programmer
Toshio Kai - Sound & Music
unbuntu
May 18th, 2006, 04:46 AM
God is the #1 programmer. Just look at how amazing his work called human running in an environment called earth...
yaaarrrgg
May 18th, 2006, 06:59 PM
God is the #1 programmer. Just look at how amazing his work called human running in an environment called earth...

This is incorrect. Zarnoc2 programmed God, as well as three other universes. :)
asimon
May 18th, 2006, 07:35 PM
God is the #1 programmer. Just look at how amazing his work called human running in an environment called earth...
Amazing? It's wretched.
bored2k
May 18th, 2006, 07:42 PM
God is the #1 programmer. Just look at how amazing his work called human running in an environment called earth...
Agreed.
bored2k
May 18th, 2006, 07:43 PM
Amazing? It's wretched.
The user loaded it up with viruses, so it's not his fault. Satan is one heck of an evil programmer, so he managed to get around Earth OS.
yaaarrrgg
May 18th, 2006, 08:05 PM
The user loaded it up with viruses, so it's not his fault. Satan is one heck of an evil programmer, so he managed to get around Earth OS.

It sounds like we are running on Windows. I've never heard that explanation for "the problem of evil" before. :)
engla
May 18th, 2006, 08:07 PM
So, here's a challange: Favourite Female Programmer?
unbuntu
May 18th, 2006, 10:26 PM
So, here's a challange: Favourite Female Programmer?
Ada?:p
bieber
May 19th, 2006, 01:49 AM
Personally, methinks RMS has to be just about the greatest programmer ever. Creator of GNU Emacs and GCC, among other things. Oh, and the founder of the GNU project and the FSF.

http://studwww.rug.ac.be/~rgevaert/gnulinux/rms.jpg
Basu
May 19th, 2006, 06:33 AM
Stallman, Torvalds, van Rossum, Wall and others. But also people like Alan Turing and Jon von Neumann, not strictly programmers, but we wouldn't be where we are without them.
tomchuk
May 19th, 2006, 06:24 PM
What, no Knuth (http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2006/mayjun/features/knuth.html)?

And for women, definately Radia Perlman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman)
RavenOfOdin
May 19th, 2006, 08:37 PM
Stroustrup and Ritchie both get my vote.

As for Torvalds, I don't think he truly belongs on that list. Sure he is a great coder in his own right, and sure he pretty much created Linux, but Linux - in and of itself - isn't a programming language.

Same with Stallman.
jimcooncat
May 19th, 2006, 08:59 PM
djb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Bernstein)

Daniel Robbins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Robbins_%28Gentoo_Linux_founder%29)

Our own Seveas (https://launchpad.net/people/dennis)

... and of course, Grace Hopper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper).
bieber
May 20th, 2006, 03:36 PM
Stroustrup and Ritchie both get my vote.

As for Torvalds, I don't think he truly belongs on that list. Sure he is a great coder in his own right, and sure he pretty much created Linux, but Linux - in and of itself - isn't a programming language.

Same with Stallman.

Who says they have to have created languages?
DirtDawg
May 20th, 2006, 06:47 PM
I Like Azz!

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/041022/041022_williamsShatner_vmed_3p.widec.jpg

1) He's got the best internet name on the Internet.
2) He knows everything and shares often.
3) He looks exactly like this.
commodore
May 20th, 2006, 07:05 PM
RMS of course.
henriquemaia
May 20th, 2006, 07:08 PM
Linus Torvalds.
bieber
May 20th, 2006, 07:16 PM
Linus Torvalds, IMHO, is way over-appreciated. Everyone thinks he's some programming god who wrote an entire Operating System by himself, and founded the Free/Open Source software movement, and continues to be its leader. In reality, he was a college student who wrote a kernel for fun, which was in turn used to make a complete OS out of GNU, which had been under development by an already very sizable free software movement for years. Morover, he made Linux free not because he particularly cares about free vs. proprietary, but because he thought it would become better that way (which it did, of course).

Now, Linus is a great programmer, but in the grand scheme of things, he's still just a person who added a relatively small piece to the GNU/Linux operating system. It's just that people like to give credit for the whole thing to whoever completed it. It gets more than slightly annoying to continually see Linus referred to as "The creator of the open source Linux operating system."
Basu
May 21st, 2006, 07:11 AM
I agree. But the truth is that the open source movement, like any movement, needs a public face and a figurehead, and Linus makes a damn good one. (So does Tux, actually).
blanky
May 22nd, 2006, 11:39 PM
I greatly agree with bieber.
RavenOfOdin
May 23rd, 2006, 05:20 PM
Who says they have to have created languages?

That was the overwhelming theme of the initial post, and if you'll recall, Torvalds was only added on as an afterthought. :p