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Tim Bray's Top Twenty Software People in the World
jg21 writes "Although this reader-compiled list of software development's giants omits pioneers like George Boole, John Louis von Neumann, and the 'Forgotten Father of the Computer' John Vincent Atanasoff - among others - it does a pretty good job of mapping the Code Masters, from Alan Turing who gave us the algorithm, to Klaus Knopper the one-man band behind Knoppix. They're mostly here - the inventors of C, C++, C#, Java, and Python; example. There are a couple of programmers who have snuck in more for their business acumen than their programming talent, like the former Powersoft/Sybase CEO Mitchell Kertzman but otherwise the 40 nominees seem pretty 'pure' and the overall idea is to narrow the list down to the Top Twenty Software People in the World - a phrase invented by Tim Bray, who blogged that Adam Bosworth would be among them. Be careful what you wish for when blogging - looks like Bray's about to find out who the community thinks the the 19 others are."
...didn't make the list again.
Blarf.
I'm finding it difficult to see any non-male names on that list. Discuss.
Knuth, like alot of these "top twenty", are just Ivory Tower acadamics with no real applications in industry. Where is Bill Gates? He bought computing to the people. Whoever made VB should also be mentioned.
...where's the cowboyneal option?
Where is Al Gore on the list?
she didn't contribute all that much. She was more of a hanger-on who enjoyed listening to Babbage's lectures and then writing about them.
So she was the first programmer groupie.
Unfortunately, she was apparently the last as well.
Dumb fuck. SysAdmins are System Administrators. Got it? It's not a position that deals with development.
For that matter, developers are not "Software Engineers" they are code monkeys. Companies don't want, and can't afford, real engineering of their software.
You misspelled shot.