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The World's Best Living Programmers

Posted by timothy on from the yeah-but-do-you-have-his-rookie-card? dept.

itwbennett (1594911) writes "How do you measure success? If it's by Stack Overflow reputation, Google engineer Jon Skeet is the world's best programmer. If it's winning programming competitions, Gennady Korotkevich or Petr Mitrechev might be your pick. But what about Linus Torvalds? Or Richard Stallman? Or Donald Knuth? ITworld's Phil Johnson has rounded up a list of what just might be the world's top 14 programmers alive today."

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  1. No exhaustive.. by tobe · · Score: 5, Funny

    .. since I'm not in it.

  2. Not sure about that by maweki · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think I have to contest that. Last semester I got straight As in both "Principles of programming languages" as well as "Algorithm Engineering".

  3. They got one thing right by Minwee · · Score: 5, Funny

    I noticed that the guy who wrote their slideshow code wasn't on the list.