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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."

2 of 285 comments (clear)

  1. Re:No exhaustive.. by Noah+Haders · · Score: 0, Troll

    Please add Noah Haders to your list: Sex God. Also, I've never heard of QEMU, Lucene. Also, why is Quora on the list? That's weird.

  2. Re:No exhaustive.. by wed128 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Stroustrup isn't really a great programmer, he's a guy who did a great job marketing a really terrible programming language.