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Ask HN: Who is the best computer programmer of all times?
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Re: Ask HN: Who is the best computer programmer of all times?
#12You will never know, for all they do is delete and refactor.
Re: Ask HN: Who is the best computer programmer of all times?
#13Any of the top coders from the major demoscenes.
Re: Ask HN: Who is the best computer programmer of all times?
#14Fabrice Bellard.
Re: Ask HN: Who is the best computer programmer of all times?
#15RMS
In case you weren't being ironic, his C code was journeyman-like in the 80s and positively atrocious by modern standards.
Re: Ask HN: Who is the best computer programmer of all times?
#16Nasir Gebelli. Wrote Apple 2 games by dictating bytes typed into the mini-assembler, went on to write/co-design the early Final Fantasy titles. Legend.