Serious question; who are the best programmers who've ever lived and what made them so great?
Me
Being brilliant
James Gosling, 50% Indigenous Canadian. Inventor or Java, the greatest programming language in human history.
>>54725317
>>54725313
What have you build anon
>>54725257
Me
Being me
Terry Davis.
I think Carmack is cool, he might not have invented all the neat tricks but he was the first to get them in real-time applications and that's neat
This thread fucking sucks
Richard Stallman is for Emacs, GCC and writing some free implementation of proprietary software almost as fast as the team developing it. I don't remember what it was called "Symbolics" or something like that.
Linus Torvalds for writing a badass kernel on his own.
Edsger Dijkstra for his algorithm finding shortest paths in graphs
Donald Knuth is known as a great programmer, but actually I don't know what did he write except TAOCP
terry a davis
>>54725257
Ada Lovelace. She basically invented coding.
George Zimmerman for his contributions to field of garbage collection
>>54725257
Steve Jobs
Better question: What are the best programmers you've ever worked with, and what made them so great?
>/g/ shows its utter disdain for any computer science knowledge that doesn't come in the form of a meme
Wew lad, wew
>>54725257
asking this is as stupid as whats the best language
its entirely irrelevant, designing algorithms and techniques behind it should be more important
not that people cant do both but there many that wouldnt be called programmers that archived big things
>>54725257
Women
People of color
LGBT people
A bunch of mentally defunct losers who had savant level programming abilities.
Autism.
>>54725317
i know this post was designed to incite rage in haskell fizzbuzzers, but gosling is definitely one of the greats.
>>54725860
Both are important in the same way that being a good physicist and being a good engineer are important but different things.
>>54725257
The best programmers are the ones you have never heard of.
>>54725257
>who are the best programmers who've ever lived
Karlie of Kourse.
>>54725257
>who are the best programmers who've ever lived and what made them so great?
That one guy who went up to his cabin for the weekend and came back with a functioning operating system. The group assigned to create the OS had floundered, so he just went and did it on his own. I seem to recall LSD was involved.
I don't remember who it was or where he worked (DEC maybe?).
>>54725803
Idk about best programmer, but a colleague from work wrote some malware detection scripts for websites that can rival sucuri's
>>54726130
Holy shit that's impressive
>>54725257
John Carmack, genius in 3d engines programming. Revolutionned the industry a couple of times.
Tarn Adams, maker of Dwarf Fortress. Not so much of a programmer according to his sayings, but he made (and is still making) the greatest and more complete fantasy world-gen/simulation of the world.
The two dudes who invented C and Unix of course, Ritchie and Kernigan? Not sure.
I guess Stroutstup too.
>>54725257
Phil Fish or CliffyB desu
>>54726120
deep
>>54725738
This.
First programmer, best programmer.
>>54725257
>http://www.tutorialspoint.com/computer_whoiswho.htm
But of course this list is incomplete.
this is a bit like asking whom the best electrician or plumber who've ever lived is
there's probably a plumbing savant somewhere out there, but nobody cares
>>54726815
But plumbers didn't build their own tools.
CS has come a long way within a very short amount of time..
>>54726774
This list is good, here is a different one:
>http://www.computersciencedegreehub.com/30-most-influential-computer-scientists-alive-today/
My parents.
>>54725313
This, being this guy is the key to greatness.
Be more like him anons, he sets the example for us all.
>>54727387
Key to greatness is utilizing others below you as tools rather than building relationships. Keep a good work relationship and friendships separate. When a superior asks for help or for someone to stay late be the first to do so without complaining.
>>54726130
Lol I can totally imagine being in uni with some quiet but smart guy. One day you'll get an assignment to build the basics of an os, and this dude just comes back after a weekend with this functional operating system.
Reminds me of a classmate of mine, in a way...
>>54727423
You might be more right than I'd like to admit, but that's not the kind of greatness I would enjoy.
>>54726052
did they have jobs though?
Steve ballmer
bill gate
>>54727431
>Reminds me of a classmate of mine, in a way...
what does he do now? Is he successful?
steven jobbs
I once programmed a whole potato
>>54725257
The amazing programmers who created and designed the Peace Mobile OS deserve my heart held thanks. Mashallah they are some of the greatest muslims I know and may Allah reward them for their work.
>>54729155
Is that a penis on the screen?
>>54726705
kek he's talking about hackers
>>54729278
yeah it's like the nuts are full of quoran and the penis is ejaculating them.
>exploding orgasm
>jizz islam all over the world
somebody make something with it
The guy working for call of duty
>>54725257
What would constitute a memorable programmer? Theyre impact on the economy, or how successful they're product was?
I feel like programming doesnt change the way we understand our world like math/physics does. Not saying sw, and computers doesn't affect our everyday lives, though.
>>54729414
I used the wrong there, but whatever.
>>54729134
faggot
>>54725677
Linus didn't write the kernel on his own you knave. Not now. Not then.
>>54726257
>Toady One
Great designer, but he can't even do multithreading
>>54725749
this.
>>54726897
>But plumbers didn't build their own tools.
How many programmers built their own compilers or computers?
>>54725257
You will probably never know their names because they worked under NDAs.
Additional note: people who write programming languages are not the best programmers.
> nobody posts Daniel J. Bernstein
hahaha
enjoy your bloated, useless, inept, RMS. He's fat, his software is shitty and slow, and quite frankly his innovations end at worthless/ineffective advocacy groups.
> but muh emacs
worthless, bloated, and slow.
> but muh gcc
aside from the fact that RMS failed to contribute anything meaningful to that project, llvm is absolutely replacing it.
Now lets take a look at Daniel J. Bernstein (henceforth djb)
> inventor of curve25519 - an algorithm for elliptic curve diffie hellman exchanges, which is now used in almost every major project that uses cryptography, including Tor, Bitcoin, and SSH.
> inventor of salsa20/chacha20 - another algorithm created by DJB which is a symmetric key stream cipher, which is now used around the world as the defacto steam cipher.
> Single handedly represented himself in Bernstein v. United States, which actually made software a representation of speech, and henceforth protected under free speech.
> Aaron Swartz actively recognized him as the greatest programmer in the world ( http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/djb )
> Entire websites exist trying to understand/follow "the djb way" (http://thedjbway.b0llix.net/)
so what are you waiting for, /g/? Submit yourself to your DJB overlord.
>>54725738
>>54726763
Speaking of Ada, where can I learn it?
>>54730425
>Stein
>Represented himself in court
makes sense
>>54725257
Here's a thought. Before asking a question here, why not go to Quora or Yahooo and see if it's been answered already. 4chan OPs are supposed to deliver novel information.
>>54726121
>Karlie "cd and ls is life" Kloss
>>54725257
Terry Davis, John Carmack
>>54730425
>Bernstein
>>54732716
>>54725465
>>54725685
/thread
Mad or not, he's a genius.
>>54725677
>Donald Knuth
TeX
because he needed a typesetter
>>54725677
>dijkstra
pls
>>54725257
>RMS
GNU Emacs
>Carmack
Quake's engine (ID tech 2)
>>54732716
This
>>54729449
He did though, it was his own project instead of being a project by a foundation or a firm. A project he's still working with even after all those people joining in to help. It's his kernel and he still gets to say what goes in it.
karlie kloss ;^D
>>54726130
>drop acid
>attempt to do anything let alone one of the most complex and challenging pieces of software imaginable.
No chance. I can believe the cabin and the 2 days to write an os but there's no way you could do any kind of programming on acid.
>>54729864
Jeez, the best ones obviously. Are you even reading the conversation numbnuts.
>>54729449
I'm pretty sure he did write the first version on his own though. In 1993 on a 386 if I remember rightly.
isis lovecruft
hackerman
Linus Torvalds
Elon Musk
me
>ctrl+f
>nobody posted turing yet
im disappointed in you guys
>>54733438
fags not welcome
>>54733438
I don't think that Turing wrote anything.
I think Douglas Crockford deserves a mention in this thread.
I learned a lot from this little book. And it's all online for free as well.
http://www.crockford.com/javascript/inheritance.html
>>54725677
have you read emacs source? it's a macro nightmare
>>54733296
Writing an os is an exercise, not a superhuman feat. Most of the code of the most widely used ones is drivers and utility shit.
>>54733480
he built a machine with the aid of only linguists for decoding messages. he might not have written any code in a language, but there was algorithms involved in the machine. all of which was made on the spot with almost no outside help
i'd consider it programming
>>54729155
>buying a phone whose battery is guaranteed to explode
>>54733546
![MTIwNjA4NjMzNjg3ODAzNDA0[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Q9OodTQ.jpg "MTIwNjA4NjMzNjg3ODAzNDA0[1].jpg")
this gorgeous bastard
>>54727014
>4
>zuckerberg
cool story brah.
>>54733487
JS is clearly shit if there's a book dedicated to only the good parts
Theo de ratt sama
>>54733635
> not influential
>>54733635
you don't have to like him, but he is influential
>>54733724
>influential
maybe, for the sheep, bro. also nokia was once influentail too not anymore.
my top three;
marvin minsky
linus torvalds
alan turing
>>54725677
>Edsger Dijkstra for his algorithm finding shortest paths in graphs
It's not that much of an acheivement desu
babby just finished algorithms 101?
Moot
>>54725677
Stallman is a fucking terrible coder.
If he weren't such an annoying kike who butt into everything with his ideology, NOBODY would remember him.
>>54725746
Uh... mods? ._.
Do you really think this kind of language makes people feel welcome on /g/?
Theo de Raadt, and all the OpenBSD's developers team in particular desu senpai.
>>54725598
Carmack is a washed-up irrelevant has been that shills for the highest bitter. He's barely a footnote in gaming history, let alone programming history.
>>54733791
>maybe, for the sheep, bro
*tips fedora*
>>54734124
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Carmack is literally based
he moved on to FP as well
>>54725746
K E K !
>>54734141
>Psychological projection is a theory in psychology in which humans defend themselves against their own unpleasant impulses by denying their existence while attributing them to others.[1] For example, a person who is habitually rude may constantly accuse other people of being rude. It incorporates blame shifting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
>>54734895
God, you are so stupid..
Some mentally challenged guy claimed Zuckerberg is "only important to sheep" - as if you can deny the fact that he's a billionaire and facebook is fucking everywhere nowadays.
And then anon tells him that he is a fedora user - which is objectively true.
And then YOU come along and tell somthing about "projection".. /g/ gets more and more stupid.
>>54734895
>>54734141
Sheep don't know they're sheep.
If a sheep jumps of a cliff, the herd will follow.
Self-awareness in animals is an indicator of intelligence.
It appears he does distinguish sheep from himself but you don't notice a difference. Pulling off fallacies and defence mechanisms out of context and without understanding them is confusing and indicates that you want to sound smart. Alot of sheep want to be smart followers instead of being humble sheperds.
>>54735354
Agree. Know yourself
>>54725257
The old Id Studio guys for that clean code.
>>54735754
>talks about the intelligence of others
>Alot
that asshole who wrote mathematica was pretty good
>>54729326
>jizzslam
>>54725257
>who are the best programmers who've ever lived and what made them so great?
A good number of them reside right here on 4chan/g/. Most of them use Arch Linux, the most hardcore programmer distro there is.
>>54725257
White guys. No one else comes close.
>>54726763
Ok sjw, yeah she was clever. But that's like saying the first plane car or bulldozer ever made was the best one
>>54735354
>Some mentally challenged guy claimed Zuckerberg is "only important to sheep" - as if you can deny the fact that he's a billionaire and facebook is fucking everywhere nowadays
Yeah, not everyone uses facebook.
Sheep do, and there are lots of sheep.
Once you factor out the popularity of facebook, it isn't exactly amazing.
>>54733600
moot?
>>54736256
pretty white boys who dress like girls
>>54736527
But dipshit-chan, the fact that facebook IS insanely popular is the selling point.
Regarding Kikerberg I'd disagree, he hasn't made anything new or awfully impressive, rather just was lucky and good at marketing.
>>54725257
steve jobs because he invented microsoft
>>54733480
this
joan clarke if anyone
>>54733884
Who?
>>54736119
Wolfram? Oh hell yes.
I don't know if there is a best, but Chris Sawyer is better than everyone posted so far.
