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Danes have been disproportionately successful at creating high impact languages and tools. (Canadians too) Here’s a list. Anders Hejlsberg (came up with Turbo
by wenc 6y ago
Danes have been disproportionately successful at creating high impact languages and tools. (Canadians too)
Here’s a list.
Anders Hejlsberg (came up with Turbo Pascal, lead architect for C#)
Bjarne Stoustrup (came up with C++)
David Heinemeier Hansson (created Ruby on Rails)
Lars Bak (created V8 Javascript VM for Google Chrome)
Peter Naur (Turing Award winner, contributed to ALGOL 60)
Rasmus Lerdorf (created PHP, born in Greenland)
https://www.friism.com/famous-danish-programmers/ https://www.friism.com/famous-danish-programmers/
- FullyFunctional 6y agoDane here. I have a few more to the list (and surely many I forgot): - You mentioned Peter Naur, but I must point out that he's the 'N' in BNF - Per Brinch Hansen (concurrent Pascal, brought us monitors) - Ole Lehrmann (BETA) ... I think it's a network effect. Early practitioners in Denmark had a PL focus and fostered the next generation.