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A comment on Ask HN: Who are your programming rockstars, and why?.

Re:Ask HN: Who are your programming rockstars, and why? by manls on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @08:45AM (#21638174)
John McCarthy, the creator of Lisp. He also played a big role in the progress of artificial intelligence in the early 1950s.
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Re:Ask HN: Who are your programming rockstars, and why? by jonjacky on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @02:01PM (#21641465)
He was also among the first - maybe the first - to propose time-sharing and helped build one of the earliest time-sharing systems.
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