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 partic

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...)