30 Most Influential People In Programming

Re:30 Most Influential People In Programming by dragonquest on Friday July 31, 2009 @03:25AM (#733958)

Frankly, the list seems put by a social news surfer and counting how many times a product gets mentioned and who its creator is. Granted since its a WebDesign site, but if you're putting the likes of Ken Thompson in there, you're probably gunning for the elders in all fields of programming.

If that be the case, why put Jason Fried in there without mentioning Guy Steele. Or John Resig but missing out on Charles Moore. I'm not saying Fried or Resig are not good, but surely not in the same category as K&R or GvR. And where is Matz? :)

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Re:30 Most Influential People In Programming by bodhi on Friday July 31, 2009 @03:55AM (#733988)

I believe Jason Fried isn't even a programmer?

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Re:30 Most Influential People In Programming by sorbits on Friday July 31, 2009 @04:06AM (#734001)

He is not, and if someone from 37 signals should be on a list of influential programmers, surely it should be David Heinemeier Hansson (creator of the Rails framework).

But definitely this list is crap! From my list of “who is missing” is Alexander Stepanov, the creator of the standard template library and an advocate of generic programming.

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