30 Most Influential People In Programming(webdesigndev.com) |
30 Most Influential People In Programming(webdesigndev.com) |
On a "who is missing" list, I know everyone will always say "x is missing" but if we include bloggers Steve Yegge is more influential (and his rants will have longer lasting effect) than some of these while as the comments mention where is Anders Hejlsberg, Donald Knuth, Steve McConnell, Allan Kay etc.
Also, for the list of "why are they on there, is there some sort of deal going on": Dion Almaer (just some writer on an Ajax tute site?) and Craig Newmark (craigslist???).
Douglas Crockford, Jeff Atwood, Kathy Sierra and Scott Hanselman are all "maybe candidates" along with Steven Frank (who the author of this article says started a company who "make many amazing Mac applications. I would recommend buying more a(sic) less every one.") and Ben Goodger (worked on FF and Chrome).
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Timothy Berners-Lee, Linus Torvalds, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Ken Thompson, James Gosling, Brendan Eich, Bjarne Stroustrup, Alan Cooper, Edsger Dijkstra, Doug Crockford, John Resig (et al) ... Jeff Atwood.
Jim Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton, Duane Allman, BB King, George Harrison ... Nick Jonas.
Jesus. What’s next? "
What happened to Anders Hejlsberg and Niklaus Wirth for example?
Oh wait the domain webdesigndev.com gives it away. Web design is not programming proper!
After all, the mac UI concept (and hence Windows) could be traced back to him. He invented OO, and Smalltalk is still in use and his free IDE Squeak has produced one of the most amazing web technologies (Seaside). (One can even argue that Java is an attempt to combine Smalltalk with C++. )
Kay is also one of the principal leads of the Croquet project (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project), pushing the concept of networking into a new dimension. Oh, and we could also trace the whole concept of laptops/netbooks to Kay's dynabook.
I think most of the people in that list should be embarrassed that Kay was not listed way above them.
I'd agree he's influential in the start-up community, but programming? Don't think so.
Hilarious that at the same time as including Jason Fried, they omitted DHH... Or Matz, for that matter.
AAAAAaaah... What?
RMS is missing? And I'd argue that John D. Carmack of ID software (#30) was quite a bit more influential than #28 (Ajaxian) and #29 (Craigslist).
Did you guys read that more than interesting paper on how ID software invented basically everything for 3D games when it deemed impossible? ('The Wizardry of ID' - http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~sakella/graphics04/handouts/id_spectr...)
If that be the case, why put Jason Fried in there without mentioning Guy Steele. Or John Resig but missing out on Charles Moore. I'm not saying Fried or Resig are not good, but surely not in the same category as K&R or GvR. And where is Matz? :)
But definitely this list is crap! From my list of “who is missing” is Alexander Stepanov, the creator of the standard template library and an advocate of generic programming.
Another problem of this list is that they place also B and C level players and also non programmers (Jason Fried).
people who are influencing are: Jeff at wood, Joel Spolsky and other famous bloggers.
IMHO
Steve McConnell and the guys behind The Pragmatic Programmer are more influential on a programming mindset than Atwood or Spolsky.
And you couldn't include Atwood before Spolsky at all, Spolsky has clearly been more influential to programmers. Perhaps because these guys are more web focused they have been less influenced by the more programming focus of Spolsky.