I don't know if there is any 'best programmer in the world' and if such a concept make sense. But some programmers seems to be very productive, in top of my he

I don't know if there is any 'best programmer in the world' and if such a concept make sense. But some programmers seems to be very productive, in top of my head: Fabrice Bellard (http://bellard.org/ http://bellard.org/) : He create a lot of high impact project including FFMPEG John Carmack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Carmack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Carmack): Video game legend that create DOOM Josh Parnell (http://joshparnell.com/ http://joshparnell.com/) : Young programmer developing outstanding games alone.