30 Most Influential People In Programming
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30 Most Influential People In Programming
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#2Seems telling that the most influential people in programming are listed as the developer of the web, then the developer of wordpress, then the developers of Google. Also a list that includes Jeff Atwood but not Alan Turing or Alonzo Church?
On a "who is missing" list, I know everyone will always say "x is missing" but if we include bloggers Steve Yegge is more influential (and his rants will have longer lasting effect) than some of these while as the comments mention where is Anders Hejlsberg, Donald Knuth, Steve McConnell, Allan Kay etc.
Also, for the list of "why are they on there, is there some sort of deal going on": Dion Almaer (just some writer on an Ajax tute site?) and Craig Newmark (craigslist???).
Douglas Crockford, Jeff Atwood, Kathy Sierra and Scott Hanselman are all "maybe candidates" along with Steven Frank (who the author of this article says started a company who "make many amazing Mac applications. I would recommend buying more a(sic) less every one.") and Ben Goodger (worked on FF and Chrome).
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#3Haha this comment from the original post by Roger Pence is gold:
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Timothy Berners-Lee, Linus Torvalds, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Ken Thompson, James Gosling, Brendan Eich, Bjarne Stroustrup, Alan Cooper, Edsger Dijkstra, Doug Crockford, John Resig (et al) ... Jeff Atwood.
Jim Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton, Duane Allman, BB King, George Harrison ... Nick Jonas.
Jesus. What’s next? "
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#4The pic of Dijkstra (#18) is actually a picture of Dr. David Gries (Cornell/UGA) who was one of my prof a bit ago. Me thinks this list wasn't very well vetted and was hastily put together for some Digg "Top X" mojo.
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#5"AjaxIan teaches people about the popular javascript language, Ajax."
AAAAAaaah... What?
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#6not really accurate, larry page made Google but it's not that influencing: google is influancing but not larry.
people who are influencing are: Jeff at wood, Joel Spolsky and other famous bloggers.
IMHO
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#7Frankly, the list seems put by a social news surfer and counting how many times a product gets mentioned and who its creator is. Granted since its a WebDesign site, but if you're putting the likes of Ken Thompson in there, you're probably gunning for the elders in all fields of programming.
If that be the case, why put Jason Fried in there without mentioning Guy Steele. Or John Resig but missing out on Charles Moore. I'm not saying Fried or Resig are not good, but surely not in the same category as K&R or GvR. And where is Matz? :)
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#8not really accurate, larry page made Google but it's not that influencing: google is influancing but not larry. people who are influencing are: Jeff at wood, Joel Spolsky and other famous bloggers. IMHO
Well if we include business influences like they have then PG has been a pretty big influence on plenty I'm sure.
Steve McConnell and the guys behind The Pragmatic Programmer are more influential on a programming mindset than Atwood or Spolsky.
And you couldn't include Atwood before Spolsky at all, Spolsky has clearly been more influential to programmers. Perhaps because these guys are more web focused they have been less influenced by the more programming focus of Spolsky.
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#9The pic of Dijkstra (#18) is actually a picture of Dr. David Gries (Cornell/UGA) who was one of my prof a bit ago. Me thinks this list wasn't very well vetted and was hastily put together for some Digg "Top X" mojo.
Good pick and yep I don't think it was proof read either. I couldn't say I know what Dijkstra looks like off hand but I thought the photo was too recent :P
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#10Frankly, the list seems put by a social news surfer and counting how many times a product gets mentioned and who its creator is. Granted since its a WebDesign site, but if you're putting the likes of Ken Thompson in there, you're probably gunning for the elders in all fields of programming. If that be the case, why put Jason Fried in there without mentioning Guy Steele. Or John Resig but missing out on Charles Moore.…
I believe Jason Fried isn't even a programmer?