/prog/ - Programming heroes

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-11 19:46

Who are your heroes of programming?

For me, it's humble people who generously contribute without expecting any recognition or reward.

Fabrice Bellard comes to mind: FFMPEG, QEMU etc.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-11 20:02

Alan Kay

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-11 20:14

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Thorstad

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-11 20:16

Steve Jobs

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-11 20:19

>>3
I don't believe he was a programmer.

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While Steve Jobs had some technical knowledge, he wasn't a noteable programmer. You're probably mistaking him for Wozniak.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-11 20:41

rich hickey

this nigga had 0 exposure to programming until he was old enough to run his own recording studio and now he's designed a new programming language that is very useful and practical but also ambitious and innovative. it's inspiring because there's all these people who started learning when they were like 6 years old or have double phds from mit and it feels like you can never catch up to them.

(if you havent looked at clojure you should. it solves the biggest problem with lisp which was that it was a niche language only for people willing to invest a lot of time in it because you had to learn a lot of meta programming shit so you could grow the language by yourself. clojure comes with sugar for powerful datastructures and all of the jvm + libraries so you can get shit done even if you dont know very much. also the community is pretty much exploding. i think it has promise.)

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-11 20:48

>>5
You're probably mistaking him for Wozniak.
Nah just trolling.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-11 21:37

David O'Toole

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-11 21:39

Ada Lovelace and Donald Knuth.

I know they're obvious choices, but fuck you.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-11 21:45

Jordan M. Thomas

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-11 21:55

Steve Jobs.

Not trolling.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-11 22:17

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Back to /g/, ``please''!

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-12 1:31

MrVacBob-sama-kun-chan

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-12 1:39

GJS Jay Sussman, of course.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-12 2:26

Guido Van Rossum

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-12 2:50

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this

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this

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Xarn

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-12 6:03

Bill Gates.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-12 6:04

Stallman

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-12 8:37

>>13
A quality programmer, to be sure.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-12 9:29

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Name: Anonymous 2011-10-12 9:31

Theo de Raadt

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-12 9:58

Satori

The Touhou

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-12 10:14

MDickie

Name: Anon 2011-10-12 10:25

Linus Torvalds - he didn't just made a kernel but an entire conception (open-source)

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-12 10:48

>>27
Yeah! Tovalds is one awesome motherfucker!

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-12 12:04

Stroustrup

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-12 12:09

Bill Gates

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-12 12:13

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self

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-12 12:14

GvR is the Steve Jobs of the programming world

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-12 12:25

John Carmack
For creating great engines and making them open source!

Michael Abrash
For his work on the Quake engine and his book "Graphics Programming Black Book", which is a great read about optimization (albeit a bit outdated).

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-12 12:30

Anonymous

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-12 13:08

Well, this isn't related to programming per se, but I really like people that just turn up, submit an updated translation file, and leave again just like that, expecting nothing in return. You are my heroes.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-12 13:09

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*self

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-12 16:22

>>33
How can you say this after id tech 5?

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-12 16:24

>>6
The only good thing about Clojure that I've noticed is how arrays and hashtables are just as first-class that lists are.
Easily mappable and so on.
However it has this tendency to try to avoid lists (see parameter arrays), which is very annoying.

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