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Great Programmers?

April 13th, 2006

Who do you think of when someone says, “great programmers”? Guy Steele, Brian Kernighan, Erich Gamma, and Anders Hejlsberg come to mind, but who else? Whose code do you think is particularly worth emulating?

(Yes, I have an ulterior motive for asking… stay tuned… ;-)

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  1. Mike McMillan
    April 13th, 2006 at 18:04 | #1
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    I’d definitely add Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson.

  2. David Crow
    April 13th, 2006 at 18:13 | #2
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    Richard Stallman
    Dennis Ritchie
    Rob Pike
    Peter Norvig
    David Heinemeier Hansson

  3. Alan Grosskurth
    April 14th, 2006 at 20:44 | #3
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    Dan Bernstein: qmail, djbdns, daemontools, etc.
    Donald Knuth: TeX, literate programming, TAOCP, etc.

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