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> Without Googling, name any famous developer from Japan. Or China. Or Russia. Yukihiro Matsumoto. Rasmus Lerdorf. Guido van Rossum.
by fauria 13y ago
> Without Googling, name any famous developer from Japan. Or China. Or Russia.
Yukihiro Matsumoto. Rasmus Lerdorf. Guido van Rossum.
- guard-of-terra 13y agoEgor Homakov :)
- timbre 13y agoYou're one for three.
- chc 13y agoRasmus is from Greenland and Guido is from the Netherlands, not China or Russia.
- NLips 13y agoJapan. Greenland. Netherlands. 1/3
- pcrh 13y agoWould Satoshi count? (I'm not even a programmer!)
- lmm 13y agoThe most plausible candidate I heard is actually called Mike.
- astrodust 13y agoRasmus Ledorf is Greenlandic and moved to Canada in 1980. I'm pretty sure he knew English before he wrote PHP.
- fauria 13y agoMaybe I should have added "Or Denmark. Or Netherlands.", but the idea is the same.
- gus_massa 13y agoIn Denmark and Netherlands, they use almost the same letters than in English. In Japan, China and Russia, they use other scripts, so the names are more difficult to Google unless you use some kind of transliteration or nickname. For example, there was a very important Russian mathematician Чебышёв, every book transliterates his name in a different way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pafnuty_Chebyshev http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pafnuty_Chebyshev
- jeorgun 13y agoThis is absolutely true, and undoubtedly a barrier to communication. It's also a complete non-starter as an argument in favor of a Portuguese SO site, so I really have no idea what it's doing in the article.
- T-hawk 13y agoEugene Roshal, the inventor of RAR.
- devgutt 13y agoJoe Armstrong
- userbinator 13y agoNot exactly a developer, but how about Xiaoyun Wang?