The World's Best Living Programmers

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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Re:No exhaustive..

[ShanghaiBill]

For others that are too busy to click through the slideshow, here is the list:

Jon Skeet : Legendary Stack Overflow contributor
Gennady Korotkevich : Competitive programming prodigy
Linus Torvalds : Creator of Linux
Jeff Dean : The brains behind Google search indexing
John Carmack : Creator of Doom
Richard Stallman : Creator of Emacs, GCC
Petr Mitrechev : One of the top competitive programmers of all time
Fabrice Bellard : Creator of QEMU
Doug Cutting : Creator of Lucene
Donald Knuth : Author of The Art of Computer Programming
Anders Hejlsberg : Creator of Turbo Pascal
Ken Thompson : Creator of Unix
Adam D'Angelo : Co-founder of Quora
Sanjay Ghemawat : Key Google architect

I would include Bill Joy on the list

[twasserman]

BSD Unix, vi editor, Sun Microsystems....

A better list than expected

[damn_registrars]

I'm just impressed that neither Bill Gates nor Mark Zuckerberg were included. Most people who don't understand programming include one - or both - of them when building a list of "top programmers" even though neither are particularly outstanding programmers.