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Re:30 Most Influential People In Programming by nopassrecover on Friday July 31, 2009 @02:21AM (#733883)
Haha this comment from the original post by Roger Pence is gold:

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Timothy Berners-Lee, Linus Torvalds, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Ken Thompson, James Gosling, Brendan Eich, Bjarne Stroustrup, Alan Cooper, Edsger Dijkstra, Doug Crockford, John Resig (et al) ... Jeff Atwood.

Jim Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton, Duane Allman, BB King, George Harrison ... Nick Jonas.

Jesus. What’s next? "

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Re:30 Most Influential People In Programming by jrockway on Friday July 31, 2009 @05:20AM (#734078)
Jeff Atwood is influential. He has taught a large number of people how not to write.
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