Becoming a Famous Programmer

An anonymous reader writes "GrokCode analyzes more than 200 famous programmers to determine what types of projects made them famous. Inventing a programming language, game, or OS ranked among the top projects likely to lead to fame. Most programmers became famous through their work on only one project. The article also shows that among famous programmers, the ratio of males to females is much larger than among normal programmers."

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Re:Can you think of any famous female programmers?

[electrictroy]

There are not many famous women engineers either. I suspect women simply don't have as much interest in "gadgets" as we men do. Likewise we men don't have much interest in shopping sprees for the latest clothing & shoe styles.

BACK TO LIST:

Where are the programmers from Atari, Commodore, and Activision? They *definitely* deserve to be there since they created the first arcade game (Pong), first home videogames (Atari 2600 cartridges), and first third-party development company (David Crane, Larry Kaplan, Alan Miller, Bob Whitehead) because they DEMANDED that programmers receive credit on their creations, rather than be treated like anonymous laborers.

(deep breath)

Perhaps I'm just an old curmudgeon, but it annoys me how these lists so often "forget" the contributions to computer industry that occurred during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. It's almost as if the authors of these lists think nothing existed prior to 1990 except Apple, Gates, Microsoft, and Jobs.