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Great Programmers Answer Questions From Aspiring Student
NathanBFH writes "Many of the questions that make it to the Ask Slashdot pages come from young and aspiring programmers wanting to know the role math and education play in the profession, or what makes certain programmers so much more productive than others, or what the future of the craft will look like. One young programmer by the name of Jarosaw "sztywny" Rzeszótko decided to ask these types of questions (and more) to the programmers he admired the most who also, it turns out, happen to be some of the most influential computer scientists and programmers of the last several decades. The result? Most of them happily responded. The results include the following: Linus Torvalds (Linux), Bjarne Stroustrup (C++), James Gosling (Java), Tim Bray (XML, Atom), Guido Van Rossum (Python), Dave Thomas (Pragmatic Programmer), David Heinemeier Hansson (Rails Framework), and Googlers Steve Yegge and Peter Norvig."
The list is nice, but what about some of the forefathers? To not have these guys (and gal) on the list is crazy, especially when talking about most influential computer scientists:
Alan Turing
Charles Babbage
Ada Lovelace
Edsger Dijkstra
There are many others, but certainly 1 or all of theses people were crucial to the field of computer science.
Perhaps he couldn't get past the 5000 levels of corporate hierarchy to find the underpaid anonymous C#/VB.Net programmer working in the broom-closet in the basement of a Bombay-based programming sweatshop?
not to not sound like a fanboi btw...