3 ms·
Academia might have been the wrong word. Do you know of any other language designer (except Larry Wall) who doesn't have a PhD? Btw, what's the source of that
by oeqa 13y ago
Academia might have been the wrong word. Do you know of any other language designer (except Larry Wall) who doesn't have a PhD?
Btw, what's the source of that consultant bit?
- oeqa 13y agoAnd before you say "Simon Peyton Jones!", you should know that he got a PhD four days ago – http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~muffy/SPJ_oration.pdf http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~muffy/SPJ_oration.pdf
- silverlake 13y agoC#, Python, PHP, Javascript, Perl, and Ruby. Obj-C, because the guy had a doctorate in biology. They are all very smart people. As the other comments said, Tcl and Lua are designed by phd guys. As were C++, Java and Erlang. I guess we've got a pretty good track record. I should use my phd in programming languages to do something useful. ;-) maybe later.
- sn41 13y agoRobin Milner of ML is the most prominent example I know. One of the two Turing award winners without a Ph. D (the other being Floyd.) He introduced polymorphic type inference to a full-blown programming language - this is the most jaw-dropping language feature I have seen to date: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Milner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Milner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_inference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_inference