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I cannot believe that EWD is actually "ranked" number 18 between Larry Wall and John Resig.... btw, it is not a very good list for people interested in program

• rtrunck 17y ago
  I agree - not a very good list at all. Jeff Atwood and no Alan Turing or Donald Knuth? Really?
  • sb 17y ago
    There are a whole lot of "in-crowd" people there, but I generally miss real contributors to the area of programming languages. I particularly miss (in no particular order!) Alain Colmeraurer, John MacCarthy, Guy Steele, Alan Kay, Niklaus Wirth, Luca Cardelli, Barbara Liskov, David Parnas, Ole-Johann Dahl, Kristen Nygaard, Tony Hoare, etc. (I could go on and on, but really have no motivation to do so now...)
  • socratees 17y ago
    What is Jeff Atwood's contribution towards the web?
    • BigO 17y ago
      you mean computing?
      • dasil003 17y ago
        Oh my god, I totally thought it was about the web. As a list for the web it kinda makes sense. As a list of general programming influence it's a travesty.
    • zacharydanger 17y ago
      Giant swaths of blockquotes and randomly bolded setences.
• Xichekolas 17y ago
  My thoughts exactly. Somehow the creator of Wordpress is listed as #2. And Jason Fried/Jeff Atwood? A better name would be "somewhat famous internet people, most of whom are programmers of some sort".