Best programmers

Serious question; who are the best programmers who've ever lived and what made them so great?

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Me

Being brilliant

James Gosling, 50% Indigenous Canadian. Inventor or Java, the greatest programming language in human history.

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What have you build user

Me

Being me

Terry Davis.

Adolf Hitler

Resolving over 6 million bugs

Kek

I think Carmack is cool, he might not have invented all the neat tricks but he was the first to get them in real-time applications and that's neat

This thread fucking sucks

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Richard Stallman is for Emacs, GCC and writing some free implementation of proprietary software almost as fast as the team developing it. I don't remember what it was called "Symbolics" or something like that.

Linus Torvalds for writing a badass kernel on his own.

Edsger Dijkstra for his algorithm finding shortest paths in graphs

Donald Knuth is known as a great programmer, but actually I don't know what did he write except TAOCP

terry a davis

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Ada Lovelace. She basically invented coding.

George Zimmerman for his contributions to field of garbage collection

Steve Jobs

Better question: What are the best programmers you've ever worked with, and what made them so great?

>Sup Forums shows its utter disdain for any computer science knowledge that doesn't come in the form of a meme
Wew lad, wew

It was 6 trillion, antisemite.

asking this is as stupid as whats the best language

its entirely irrelevant, designing algorithms and techniques behind it should be more important

not that people cant do both but there many that wouldnt be called programmers that archived big things

Oy vey

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Women
People of color
LGBT people

A bunch of mentally defunct losers who had savant level programming abilities.
Autism.

i know this post was designed to incite rage in haskell fizzbuzzers, but gosling is definitely one of the greats.

Apple Menu >> Shut It Down...

Both are important in the same way that being a good physicist and being a good engineer are important but different things.

The best programmers are the ones you have never heard of.

>who are the best programmers who've ever lived

Karlie of Kourse.

>who are the best programmers who've ever lived and what made them so great?

That one guy who went up to his cabin for the weekend and came back with a functioning operating system. The group assigned to create the OS had floundered, so he just went and did it on his own. I seem to recall LSD was involved.

I don't remember who it was or where he worked (DEC maybe?).

Idk about best programmer, but a colleague from work wrote some malware detection scripts for websites that can rival sucuri's

Holy shit that's impressive

John Carmack, genius in 3d engines programming. Revolutionned the industry a couple of times.
Tarn Adams, maker of Dwarf Fortress. Not so much of a programmer according to his sayings, but he made (and is still making) the greatest and more complete fantasy world-gen/simulation of the world.
The two dudes who invented C and Unix of course, Ritchie and Kernigan? Not sure.
I guess Stroutstup too.

Phil Fish or CliffyB desu

topkek

MODS WHY

deep

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This.
First programmer, best programmer.

>tutorialspoint.com/computer_whoiswho.htm


But of course this list is incomplete.

this is a bit like asking whom the best electrician or plumber who've ever lived is

there's probably a plumbing savant somewhere out there, but nobody cares

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But plumbers didn't build their own tools.
CS has come a long way within a very short amount of time..

This list is good, here is a different one:

>computersciencedegreehub.com/30-most-influential-computer-scientists-alive-today/

My parents.

This, being this guy is the key to greatness.

Be more like him anons, he sets the example for us all.

Key to greatness is utilizing others below you as tools rather than building relationships. Keep a good work relationship and friendships separate. When a superior asks for help or for someone to stay late be the first to do so without complaining.

Lol I can totally imagine being in uni with some quiet but smart guy. One day you'll get an assignment to build the basics of an os, and this dude just comes back after a weekend with this functional operating system.

Reminds me of a classmate of mine, in a way...

You might be more right than I'd like to admit, but that's not the kind of greatness I would enjoy.

did they have jobs though?

Steve ballmer

bill gate

>Reminds me of a classmate of mine, in a way...
what does he do now? Is he successful?

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steven jobbs

I once programmed a whole potato

The amazing programmers who created and designed the Peace Mobile OS deserve my heart held thanks. Mashallah they are some of the greatest muslims I know and may Allah reward them for their work.

Is that a penis on the screen?

kek he's talking about hackers

yeah it's like the nuts are full of quoran and the penis is ejaculating them.
>exploding orgasm
>jizz islam all over the world

somebody make something with it

The guy working for call of duty

What would constitute a memorable programmer? Theyre impact on the economy, or how successful they're product was?
I feel like programming doesnt change the way we understand our world like math/physics does. Not saying sw, and computers doesn't affect our everyday lives, though.

I used the wrong there, but whatever.

faggot

Linus didn't write the kernel on his own you knave. Not now. Not then.

>Toady One
Great designer, but he can't even do multithreading

this.

>But plumbers didn't build their own tools.

How many programmers built their own compilers or computers?

You will probably never know their names because they worked under NDAs.

Additional note: people who write programming languages are not the best programmers.

> nobody posts Daniel J. Bernstein
hahaha
enjoy your bloated, useless, inept, RMS. He's fat, his software is shitty and slow, and quite frankly his innovations end at worthless/ineffective advocacy groups.
> but muh emacs
worthless, bloated, and slow.
> but muh gcc
aside from the fact that RMS failed to contribute anything meaningful to that project, llvm is absolutely replacing it.

Now lets take a look at Daniel J. Bernstein (henceforth djb)
> inventor of curve25519 - an algorithm for elliptic curve diffie hellman exchanges, which is now used in almost every major project that uses cryptography, including Tor, Bitcoin, and SSH.
> inventor of salsa20/chacha20 - another algorithm created by DJB which is a symmetric key stream cipher, which is now used around the world as the defacto steam cipher.
> Single handedly represented himself in Bernstein v. United States, which actually made software a representation of speech, and henceforth protected under free speech.
> Aaron Swartz actively recognized him as the greatest programmer in the world ( aaronsw.com/weblog/djb )
> Entire websites exist trying to understand/follow "the djb way" (thedjbway.b0llix.net/)

so what are you waiting for, Sup Forums? Submit yourself to your DJB overlord.

Speaking of Ada, where can I learn it?

>Stein
>Represented himself in court
makes sense

Here's a thought. Before asking a question here, why not go to Quora or Yahooo and see if it's been answered already. Sup Forums OPs are supposed to deliver novel information.

>Karlie "cd and ls is life" Kloss

Terry Davis, John Carmack

>Bernstein

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Mad or not, he's a genius.

>Donald Knuth
TeX
because he needed a typesetter

>dijkstra
pls

>RMS
GNU Emacs
>Carmack
Quake's engine (ID tech 2)

This

He did though, it was his own project instead of being a project by a foundation or a firm. A project he's still working with even after all those people joining in to help. It's his kernel and he still gets to say what goes in it.

karlie kloss ;^D

>drop acid
>attempt to do anything let alone one of the most complex and challenging pieces of software imaginable.
No chance. I can believe the cabin and the 2 days to write an os but there's no way you could do any kind of programming on acid.

Jeez, the best ones obviously. Are you even reading the conversation numbnuts.

I'm pretty sure he did write the first version on his own though. In 1993 on a 386 if I remember rightly.

isis lovecruft

hackerman

Linus Torvalds

Elon Musk

me

>ctrl+f
>nobody posted turing yet
im disappointed in you guys

fags not welcome

I don't think that Turing wrote anything.

I think Douglas Crockford deserves a mention in this thread.

I learned a lot from this little book. And it's all online for free as well.

crockford.com/javascript/inheritance.html

have you read emacs source? it's a macro nightmare

Writing an os is an exercise, not a superhuman feat. Most of the code of the most widely used ones is drivers and utility shit.

he built a machine with the aid of only linguists for decoding messages. he might not have written any code in a language, but there was algorithms involved in the machine. all of which was made on the spot with almost no outside help
i'd consider it programming

>buying a phone whose battery is guaranteed to explode

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this gorgeous bastard

>4
>zuckerberg
cool story brah.