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Re:Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's ... by oeqa on Saturday December 07, 2013 @12:40PM (#6866974)
Academia might have been the wrong word. Do you know of any other language designer (except Larry Wall) who doesn't have a PhD?

Btw, what's the source of that consultant bit?

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Re:Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's ... by oeqa on Saturday December 07, 2013 @01:24PM (#6867109)
And before you say "Simon Peyton Jones!", you should know that he got a PhD four days ago – http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~muffy/SPJ_oration.pdf
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Re:Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's ... by sn41 on Sunday December 08, 2013 @12:37AM (#6869076)
Robin Milner of ML is the most prominent example I know. One of the two Turing award winners without a Ph. D (the other being Floyd.) He introduced polymorphic type inference to a full-blown programming language - this is the most jaw-dropping language feature I have seen to date:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Milner

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_inference

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Re:Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's ... by silverlake on Saturday December 07, 2013 @10:32PM (#6868849)
C#, Python, PHP, Javascript, Perl, and Ruby. Obj-C, because the guy had a doctorate in biology. They are all very smart people.

As the other comments said, Tcl and Lua are designed by phd guys. As were C++, Java and Erlang. I guess we've got a pretty good track record. I should use my phd in programming languages to do something useful. ;-) maybe later.

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