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Donald Knuth is certainly in the same league.

• mythz 7y ago
  No doubt a brilliant academic and mathematical mind with invaluable contributions to field of comp-sci and algorithms and author of the iconic TAOCP, but in terms of software works he's single-handedly produced? He's most famous for TeX typesetting system and inventing Literate programming, but his other software have had a lot less impact. But that's mostly by choice as he's predominantly a professor who spends most of his time teaching so he's obviously going to have created a lot less body of digital works than a full-time developer is going to have.
  • basementcat 7y ago
    He also designed and implemented METAFONT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafont https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafont