A few people create and advance a field: Peter Kollmann and the dynamicists, John Pople and the theoreticians, Clark Still or Garland Marshall or the other mode

A few people create and advance a field: Peter Kollmann and the dynamicists, John Pople and the theoreticians, Clark Still or Garland Marshall or the other modellers. A few more of us are the pairs of hands that help realize their ideas. The tools then spread into the commercial areas that make stuff, hopefully helping progress. There’s more to software than selling ads and monetizing user data.