SKP's Top 10 Programmers of All Time
Guess this One will be the Favorite Among All Here ~ Also, One that We May Never Fully Agree Upon Across the World — Here's my List!
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Join For FreeGuess this One will be the Favorite Among All Here ~ Also, One that We May Never Fully Agree Upon Across the World — Here's my List — Come Up with Your Own and Post Along with Justification. You May Criticize my List, As Well! But In All — C, C++, Java, C#, Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, F# or Whatever — We are all 'Great Developers' in Our Own Ways!
My 'Personal Greats List' from what has been part of my life for the last 25 years [1995-2020] — Programming!
Parameters [Timeline of Impact]
Technical Impact of Creation [Lifelong]
Business Impact of Creation [Lifelong]
Competitive Programming [Till Date]
All-Round Achievements [Lifelong]
Programmers [Major Contribution — Nationality — Affiliation]
01. Dennis Ritchie [B, C — U.S.A — Bell Labs/Dead]
02. Brian Kernighan [Unix, AWK, C — Canada- Princeton University]
03. Bjarne Stroustrup [C++ — Denmark — Morgan Stanley]
04. James Gosling [Java — Canada — Liquid Robotics]
05. Linus Torvalds [Linux — Finland — Linux]
06. Ken Thompson [B, Unix, Go — U.S.A — Google]
07. Donald Knuth [Algorithms — U.S.A — Stanford]
08. Petr Mitrichev [Competitive — Russia — Google]
09. Gennady Korotkevich [Competitive — Belarus — ITMO]
10. Bill Gates [Microsoft — U.S.A — Microsoft]
Do you agree with me?
If not, your comments along with your own personal list (if any) would be really appreciated.
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