Yeah, Linus is up among the greats. Linux and Git are huge. Pike, Thompson and Ritchie are in the same league. Not many others, maybe none. A level below th

Yeah, Linus is up among the greats. Linux and Git are huge. Pike, Thompson and Ritchie are in the same league. Not many others, maybe none. A level below that, people like Gavin King. He invented Hibernate and Seam, not too shabby. (But not like Linux.) A level below that, the rest of us mortals. I know quite a few one-hit authors (they're good) and some maintenance wizard, but it's nothing like inventing multiple super-hits. Hats off to Linus.