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Top Ten Software Innovators?

Posted by Cliff on from the new-naming-conventions dept.

Rsriram asks: "At our company we have named some of the conference rooms with names of software innovators. The names include Ken Thompson, Donald Knuth, Ada Lovelace, Dennis Ritchie. We need to name 10 more rooms and I was wondering who Slashdot readers would think are the top ten software innovators. Not computer hardware but software. I was thinking Von Neumann, and Linus Torvalds would find a mention, What about Watts Humphrey?"

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  1. When you say 'software innovation' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    You've said 'Bill Gates'.

  2. How about.. by glh · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anders Hejlsberg the creator of C# (and Delphi?)
    - the "Hejlsberg" room

    Larry Wall the creator of Perl
    - the "wall" room?

    Alan Cooper "father of VB"
    - the "Closet"? :)

  3. Obvious by DeadSea · · Score: 4, Funny
    Here is a list of who it should be (Sorry if I left anybody out):
    1. CmdrTaco
    2. Hemos
    3. CowboyNeal
    4. JonKatz
    5. Cliff
    6. jamie
    7. michael
    8. pudge
    9. timothy
    10. DeadSea
  4. Re:You seem to be going for recent people? by i+chose+quality · · Score: 2, Funny

    Turning would be turing in his grave.

    SCNR

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  5. Re:Dijkstra by ptomblin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dijkstra considered harmful.

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  6. Re:Larry Wall.... by gowen · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, but imagine the confusion of a door with the word "Wall" written on it...

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  7. Re:Dijkstra by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hehe. You should have tacked it to the bathroom wall...

  8. Re:You seem to be going for recent people? by orthogonal · · Score: 3, Funny

    Turning would be turing in his grave.

    Actually, I think you mean his tape is caught in an infinite loop of read forward--print zero--read backward--print zero--read forward--....

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