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If Ken Thompson is Newton of Computer Science (as opposed to say, unix), who is Niklaus Wirth?

• enneff 13y ago
  Or indeed Claude Shannon.
  • tripzilch 13y ago
    Shannon is more like the Feynmann of Computer Science: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon#Hobbies_and_inventions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon#Hobbies_and_inve...
    • arithma 13y ago
      The fixed point is, of course, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann‎
    • mheathr 13y ago
      Shannon was an electrical engineer by training and while all of his works have applications in computer science, their origins were solutions to engineering or math problems.
• vanderZwan 13y ago
  The Euler of Computer Science, of course: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_%28programming_language%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_%28programming_language%2...