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Ask HN: Who would be a programming God if they were alive today?

• photon_collider 3y ago
  Probably John von Neumann: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
• throwaway_08932 3y ago
  > Who would be a programming God Are you twelve?
• kamaitachi 3y ago
  Clearly a titan of engineering and innovation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel
• helph67 3y ago
  Alan Turing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
• bediger4000 3y ago
  Probably Napoleon and Julius Caesar based on the number of blog posts attributing modern day virtues to historical figures.
• 6R1M0R4CL3 3y ago
  Von Neumann. He was so higher in intelligence than everyone else that ever meet him that it was scary to them. He was not more intelligent, he was leagues ahead. I think the only person right now on this planet to get close to that kind of intelligence so high it feels alien when you meet it is Edward Witten.