I have to give "mad props" to Fabrice Bellard and Donald Knuth -- but don't forget about Brian Kernighan, Dennis Richie, Niklaus Wirth, Charles Simonyi, Raymond

I have to give "mad props" to Fabrice Bellard and Donald Knuth -- but don't forget about Brian Kernighan, Dennis Richie, Niklaus Wirth, Charles Simonyi, Raymond Chen, Mike "Assume Nothing" Abrash, Jeff Dean, Edsger Dijkstra, Andrew Tanenbaum, Linus Torvalds, Anders Hejlsberg, Joel Spolsky, and, more recently Eelco Dolstra -- and all of the hundreds of thousands of unnamed unsung committers to GitHub and other open-source repositories... And of course Charles Babbage, George Boole, Alan Turing, John Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert, Claude Shannon, John Von Neuman, Grace Hopper -- and the other early pioneers of computation...