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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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