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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.