Personnally, I put Guido van Rossum on the top of my nomination list for the stuff he made with Python: creating an easy, flexible and powerful language, fully extensible and integrable with current existing C code. I also vote for him because of his implication in the learning of programming for masses. I think it's a key-issue for a durable success of the Open Source model.
But I can't forget the work done by Eric S. Raymond in domains like sociology and economics of Open Source, which were still underknown before he popularized these.
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Hasta la VISTA, Bill!
Please name thy author when quoting: Henry Spencer for this one...
Yeah yeah, call this "karma whoring", I don't GAF! ;-)
Personnally, I put Guido van Rossum on the top of my nomination list for the stuff he made with Python: creating an easy, flexible and powerful language, fully extensible and integrable with current existing C code. I also vote for him because of his implication in the learning of programming for masses. I think it's a key-issue for a durable success of the Open Source model.
But I can't forget the work done by Eric S. Raymond in domains like sociology and economics of Open Source, which were still underknown before he popularized these.
[sorry for my english, it's not my mother tongue]