Last week, I wrote about NetWork World’s 14 Greatest Living Programmers. This week, I’m Programmer has a list of The 10 Greatest Programmers in the World of all Time.
Lists of these sorts are always silly, of course, but nevertheless fun to read and argue about. I’m Programmer’s list is pretty noncontroversial. It starts out with DMR and ends with Knuth. Those in between are just as worthy. It’s got Thompson, Stroustrup, Gosling, Kernigham, Torvolds, and others. Each entry has a picture and short blurb of the candidates accomplishments. Best of all, it’s not a slide show.
You might possibly argue that someone more deserving was left off the list but you would, I think, be hard put to claim that anyone on the list didn’t deserve to be there. But take a look and see for yourself. Leave a comment if you disagree with the list or think someone more deserving was left off it.