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Original author of Turbo Pascal, chief architect of Delphi, lead architect of C#, creator of TypeScript. Does anyone else in language design have as many accol

by mikece 8y ago

Original author of Turbo Pascal, chief architect of Delphi, lead architect of C#, creator of TypeScript. Does anyone else in language design have as many accolades as this or designed languages on which trillions of dollars of commerce depend?

pjmlp 8y ago
Martin Odersky, created Turbo Modula-2 for Borland, member of the Pizza language whose design lead to Java generics implementation, designer of the Scala language. Erik Meyer, member of GHC design team and Haskell community, responsible for LINQ design bringing FP to the masses, reactive extensions in .NET which lead to the RX model adopted by Netflix, nowadays contributing back to Haskell at FB (if I am not mistaken). Niklaus Wirth, creator of Pascal, Modula-2, Oberon, Oberon-2, Oberon-07. Helped Apple design Object Pascal for Mac OS and Lisa. Contributed feedback to Active Oberon and Component Pascal. Built single language workstations using the Modula and Oberon family of languages.
- zarkov99 8y ago
  In other words,no.
- mega-tux 8y ago
  Meijer also worked on Hack, Dart and others.
throwawaymath 8y ago
It's fascinating to me that he never graduated with a bachelor's degree, let alone a research degree. Even more impressive.
patrec 8y ago
Guy Steele comes to mind. He hasn't been as successful with the languages he co-created (most importantly scheme and to a lesser extent Common Lisp; Fortress was stillborn) but he's also been involved with the Javascript, C, Fortran (as a standards committee member) and Java (as a specification author). And he's been tremendously influential as a profound thinker on language design; I'm not sure anyone else understand so much about so many different languages and from quite different perspectives. Hejlsberg probably is completely in a class of his own as a designer and architect/implementor of innovative spins on existing languages though.
- romwell 8y ago
  >Hejlsberg probably is completely in a class of his own as a designer and architect/implementor of innovative spins on existing languages though. Arhictect/implementor of IDE's (TurboPascal, Delphi, VS - all immensely influential). If you haven't had the joy of programming in Delphi, you'll feel at home if you ever used VS/C#.. in Delphi 2.0 of the mid-90's.
stareatgoats 8y ago
> or designed languages on which trillions of dollars of commerce depend Brendan Eich probably scores even higher on that scale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
- raverbashing 8y ago
  Stirred lots of controversy for having lopsided equality tables (ambiguity intended)
  - stareatgoats 8y ago
    true == 1 === true What's ambiguous about that? :-P
    - stephen82 8y ago
      Of course this would not work. typeof(true) is of type 'Boolean' and typeof(1) is of type 'number'. Do they compare to the same type? Nope, therefore is false in both cases. Try the following: let foo = true; true === foo === true; // returns true.
      - stareatgoats 8y ago
        er - no. Assuming you are not trolling (benefit of the doubt and all that): You might mean it shouldn't work? but alas it does (because of 'lopsided equality tables'). Try the following: open the console of your browser, type the following: true == 1 === true and press enter - tada! You can also check out this SO answer if you are sufficiently flabbergasted: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12236341 https://stackoverflow.com/a/12236341
        vqrs 8y ago
        I'm not sure how what you linked is related, but the only "surprising" thing here is probably `true == 1`. This evaluates to true, and because comparisons are left-associative, we have `(true == 1) === true` which reduces to `true === true`, which, unsurprisingly, is true.
tosh 8y ago
Lars Bak has quite a track record with runtimes as well as languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Bak_(computer_programmer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Bak_(computer_programmer)
lanna 8y ago
I don't think anyone can beat Dennis Ritchie on the "designed languages on which trillions of dollars of commerce depend" metric, especially when we consider the many languages which are themselves implemented in C.
- pjmlp 8y ago
  He was helped by AT&T giving away UNIX source code for a symbolic price to universities, which had to pay thousands for other commercial systems. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/07/should-we-thank-for-feds-for-the-success-of-unix/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/07/should-we-thank-...
- nickpsecurity 8y ago
  That would be joint credit with core innovation going to Martin Richards: the inventor of BCPL that B and C were based on. His team went from big, safe languages to a tiny, efficient one close to the machine with philosophy that programmer was in control. Ken Thompson picked it up from him on MULTICS project. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Richards_(computer_scientist) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Richards_(computer_sc...
todd8 8y ago
Barbara Liskov, who won the 2008 Turing Award for her work in the design of programming languages and software methodology that led to the development of object-oriented programming. Her work at MIT on the CLU programming language influenced many modern languages, interfaces, exception handling, abstraction mechanisms, etc. She was my undergraduate thesis advisor in 1974.

by mikece 8y ago

pjmlp 8y ago

Martin Odersky, created Turbo Modula-2 for Borland, member of the Pizza language whose design lead to Java generics implementation, designer of the Scala language. Erik Meyer, member of GHC design team and Haskell community, responsible for LINQ design bringing FP to the masses, reactive extensions in .NET which lead to the RX model adopted by Netflix, nowadays contributing back to Haskell at FB (if I am not mistaken). Niklaus Wirth, creator of Pascal, Modula-2, Oberon, Oberon-2, Oberon-07. Helped Apple design Object Pascal for Mac OS and Lisa. Contributed feedback to Active Oberon and Component Pascal. Built single language workstations using the Modula and Oberon family of languages.

zarkov99 8y ago
In other words,no.
mega-tux 8y ago
Meijer also worked on Hack, Dart and others.

throwawaymath 8y ago

It's fascinating to me that he never graduated with a bachelor's degree, let alone a research degree. Even more impressive.

patrec 8y ago

Guy Steele comes to mind. He hasn't been as successful with the languages he co-created (most importantly scheme and to a lesser extent Common Lisp; Fortress was stillborn) but he's also been involved with the Javascript, C, Fortran (as a standards committee member) and Java (as a specification author). And he's been tremendously influential as a profound thinker on language design; I'm not sure anyone else understand so much about so many different languages and from quite different perspectives. Hejlsberg probably is completely in a class of his own as a designer and architect/implementor of innovative spins on existing languages though.

romwell 8y ago
>Hejlsberg probably is completely in a class of his own as a designer and architect/implementor of innovative spins on existing languages though. Arhictect/implementor of IDE's (TurboPascal, Delphi, VS - all immensely influential). If you haven't had the joy of programming in Delphi, you'll feel at home if you ever used VS/C#.. in Delphi 2.0 of the mid-90's.

stareatgoats 8y ago

> or designed languages on which trillions of dollars of commerce depend Brendan Eich probably scores even higher on that scale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich

raverbashing 8y ago
Stirred lots of controversy for having lopsided equality tables (ambiguity intended)
- stareatgoats 8y ago
  true == 1 === true What's ambiguous about that? :-P
  - stephen82 8y ago
    Of course this would not work. typeof(true) is of type 'Boolean' and typeof(1) is of type 'number'. Do they compare to the same type? Nope, therefore is false in both cases. Try the following: let foo = true; true === foo === true; // returns true.
    - stareatgoats 8y ago
      er - no. Assuming you are not trolling (benefit of the doubt and all that): You might mean it shouldn't work? but alas it does (because of 'lopsided equality tables'). Try the following: open the console of your browser, type the following: true == 1 === true and press enter - tada! You can also check out this SO answer if you are sufficiently flabbergasted: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12236341 https://stackoverflow.com/a/12236341
      - vqrs 8y ago
        I'm not sure how what you linked is related, but the only "surprising" thing here is probably `true == 1`. This evaluates to true, and because comparisons are left-associative, we have `(true == 1) === true` which reduces to `true === true`, which, unsurprisingly, is true.

tosh 8y ago

Lars Bak has quite a track record with runtimes as well as languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Bak_(computer_programmer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Bak_(computer_programmer)

lanna 8y ago

I don't think anyone can beat Dennis Ritchie on the "designed languages on which trillions of dollars of commerce depend" metric, especially when we consider the many languages which are themselves implemented in C.

pjmlp 8y ago
He was helped by AT&T giving away UNIX source code for a symbolic price to universities, which had to pay thousands for other commercial systems. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/07/should-we-thank-for-feds-for-the-success-of-unix/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/07/should-we-thank-...
nickpsecurity 8y ago
That would be joint credit with core innovation going to Martin Richards: the inventor of BCPL that B and C were based on. His team went from big, safe languages to a tiny, efficient one close to the machine with philosophy that programmer was in control. Ken Thompson picked it up from him on MULTICS project. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Richards_(computer_scientist) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Richards_(computer_sc...

todd8 8y ago

Barbara Liskov, who won the 2008 Turing Award for her work in the design of programming languages and software methodology that led to the development of object-oriented programming. Her work at MIT on the CLU programming language influenced many modern languages, interfaces, exception handling, abstraction mechanisms, etc. She was my undergraduate thesis advisor in 1974.