Who is the greatest programmer of all time?

Bill gates didn't write Windows and I'm laughing at the fact you decided to include guido.
Jokes aside, Donald Knuth and Rob Pike are great. As is Terry, despite the memes.

>>59923025
>wrote Windows
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>>59923025
if you picked anything but knuth you're wrong and retarded

>>59923070
aye

>>59923025
>no terry davis

Its like you didnt even try

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Voted for based Gates, can't kill the Bill.

>>59923070
I picked Torvalds who will save the world from incompatibility. What are you going to do about it, faggot?

where's terry

>>59923025
Skeet is a code monkey.

If you want to mention Googlers, put Jeff Dean there, he got his name on every big paper Google publishes.

/carmackboys/ ww@?

>>59923025
Terry Davis, the programmer chosen by God

>>59923025
Where the fuck is Dijkstra?

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>>59923025
Well, fuck you

>>59923025
Dennis Richie wrote a programming language 45 years ago that is still relevant and efficient today and will be for the foreseeable future. Such a feat in the computer field (considering how fast things advance and are deprecated) is pretty much god level IMO.

Bjarne Stroustrup

>no dijkstra or john mccarthy
>bill gates wrote windows

gas yo self

>>59923141
A complete hack and a tool that basically copied Dennis the Mannis.

>>59923025
> Guido van Rossum
> created a language with significant whitespace, despite decades of wisdom and experience indicating that's a bad idea

>>59923130
And I managed to misspell his name.
Ritchie*

Knuth is definitely the best computer scientist of the bunch, he has created more value in the computer world than anyone of the other guys, but is he the best programmer? Not sure. Maybe Stallman in that case.

>not RMS

it's like you want to be cucked by nonfree software

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steve jerbs

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If you vote anything other than Stallman then you don't belong on this board. There's a reason why he, and no one else, was chosen to be the sticky.

Stallman is more of a philosopher than a programmer

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>>59923141

>No Ken or Dijkstra
Wew fucking lad. Delet yourself.

>>59923207
Sorry, but meme-tier autism regarding software philosophy doesn't make you a good programmer

Look at all these edgy fan bois thinking they are the shit by saying Dijkstra. That man contributed nothing but a simple graph algorithm that even a high school kid can think of in a day.

Where's Terry?

where the fuck is my man Terry

>>59923025
Gates has not writen windows but an BASIC interpreter. MSDOS was written by Patterson and windows by another guy. Gates was a manager.

>>59923025
>no bjarne stroustrup
o-ok senpai

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>>59923280
>>59923285

>>59923025
><no terrt DEVEUS
lol u fuckin idiot wtf are you doin


fucking niggerass fuckass fuck lool

>>59923269
>t. dropped out after first CS semester.

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Larry Wall desu.

>>59923269
>Dijkstra contributed nothing but an algorithm
Except he also actually proved it in the same paper. By doing so, he showed that formal logic and algorithm study were two sides of the same coin.

Also, he invented sempahores, which are fucking essential for concurrent programming.

Knuth. Not only an amazing programmer, he also introduced the first bug bounty program that I know of.

Lennart Poetering should be on that list to rustle some jimmies.

>>59923025
Where is Terry?

dennis ritchie is the only answer

>>59923025
Knowing what I know about doom, and carmacks programing history, I have to give it to him.

everyone else on this list while they made fantastic contributions to computing, carmacks practical application of programing along with solving problems that hardware just was not capable of doing at the time he made the advancements... this is what makes me respect his work.

He had a physical limit, and decided fuck you i'll make this shit work, and the mad man got the shit to work.

The straw poll says greatest game developer of all time, but he was never a developer for games, he was a programmer that had input on the games at first, and after doom was really just a programer that got shit done.

>>59923443
dis

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Where is the option to pick our gnu lord and savior, Lennart Poettering?

>>59923025
Windows should be disqualified. You can't judge about programming skills of a program without reading the source code.

>>59923025
Gates is a businessman not a fucking programmer

>>59923570
in trash, where it belongs, senpai

>>59923025
Ava Lovelace seems to be missing

>no Eric S. Raymond
>no Terry Davis

Kill yourself my man

Why is Richard Stallman even on that list, he doesn't even care about writing quality code. He only cares about his communist license, that is his main contribution. GNU software is fucking disgusting is not even a good example of well written software, but the opposite.

Putting Stallman on the same list as people like Knuth is insulting an exposes you as a fucking ignorant asshole.

>No Woz
Shitty questionnaire

>>59923633
>Eric S. Raymond
Wtf did he contribute? He's a fucking tech journalist with an edgy ancap ideology.

>>59923691
he probably watched Revolution OS and thought he was anything more than a shitty author

>>59923691
Almost everyone in the OP is more notorious for their ideology spouting than the code they wrote

Terry A Davis

>>59923025
>Stallman
He doesn't even deserve a mention.

>>59923691
Just like Stallman, except that he is a commie

>>59923735
Stallman actually did code back in the day. ESR is just an edgy author who hasn't been relevant since he tried to troll FSF with his alternative non-copyleft open source license spinoff thingy in the early 2000s.

>>59923705
>this stupid
His code is everywhere anon, notably in GPS systems which is in military equipment and every android phone

>>59923025
OP is a faggot as always
Bill gates didn't wrote window
KYS
>>59923125
THIS

>>59923772
>in GPS systems which is in military equipment and every android phone
Uh, no. He wrote a tool that reads data from a GPS receiver and made nethack. Hardly any accomplishments.

>>59923158
Significant whitespace would have made goto fail impossible. It's stupid to have two different ways of indicating program structure, one for humans and one for computers, that aren't even guaranteed to match up.

>>59923772
>fanatic anarcho-capitalist contributed to a mass surveillance program
Why am I not surprised? He probably sells your location data to big corporations too.

>>59923614
Ada*

This poll is like asking which physicists is the most important to physics and everyone answers either Einstein or Newton because thats the only two physicists normies know about.

Walter Bright desu

>all those retards not voting for Donald Knuth

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>>59923952
How influential can he really be when I never even heard of him until today?

>>59923025
you include guido but not stroustrup?

>>59923968
>when I never even heard of him until today?
TeX, Metafont, MIMIX, KMP algorithm, The Art of Computer Programming

>>59924169
>MIMIX
?

Did you mean MINIX? I'm pretty sure that's Tannenbaum's work.

>>59923025
Why is that list so bad?
Linus: wrote a tiny part of 1 shitty kernel and some scuba driving program
Stalled man: didn't even write for the past 20 years, besides just made a harmful license known as GPL
Jon Skeet: who?
Amit Singhal: who is that pajeet?
John Carmack: made some games. probably ok
Dennis Ritchie: C is good, but it's just in a good place and time
Bill Gates: not even a programmer
Guido something: just made a shitty language, amoeba was a better thing
Donald Knuth: good book writer

i'd choose Rob Pike

>>59924169
>TeX
Only alive because CS as an academic field is filled with neckbeards from the 1970s. It's a reason why it's almost exclusively used in CS and mathematics.

>Metafont
Never heard of it

>MIMIX
Never heard of it

>KMP algorithm
Second semester CS-tier

>TAoCP
Unfinished and incomplete behemoth that stopped being relevant some time in the 80s.

>>59924221
Rob Pike is the reason why Go has include directives allowing you to download code directly from GitHub, but failed to implement any kind of version control for it.

>>59924259
Google doesn't care about this because they do everything rolling on a mono-repo anyway

>>59924297
I know, but it's horrible for any form of dependency on external repos. There exist this kludge where you cram some stuff into a configuration file, but honestly it's just god awful.

Dinosaurs like Rob Pike should just stay away and keep their overrated UNIX philosophy to themselves. Clearly they haven't realised that the world has moved beyond C preprocessor include directives.

>>59924169
>TeX
For this alone he should be hanged

>>59923822
Have you never written a function prototype that's longer than 80 (or whatever limit you use) characters? That's when brackets come in use.

>>59923726
You sound like such a naive millennial

where's terry

>>59924340
{\bfseries DELET THIS}

>>59923249
Stallman was a gifted programmer before going full time into FSF politics, he also was a gifted computer scientist despite not being a computer scientist

>>59923025
cormack

>>59924428
He could have done all sorts of stuff at MIT's AI lab, but that broken printer driver really really really pushed him over the edge, didn't it?

It's kind of sad, in a way. But then again, without Stallman, there would be no GCC, which is arguably the biggest contribution to FSF, even more so than the GPL.

>>59923025

Nature

>>59923025
Whoever created Java.

>voting for a literal sociopath like Carmack
Haha ew why

>>59923120
Literally this

>>59923025
>carmack

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>>59923126
that fat cunt did noting but harm the world

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>>59923025
>no terry
Your poll is fucking shit, here's a better version.
http://www.strawpoll.me/12761644

>>59925287
Miyu ;_;

>>59925287
>good poll
>leaves Bill Gates untouched
retard

>>59925323
I didn't bother fixing the rest of the glaring mistakes with the poll, too lazy for that.

where the fuck is Alan Turing™, the inventor of all programming languages ever?

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Fuck yeah.

>>59923025

>people unironically choosing Stallman

>no Dan Ingalls
>no Dave Cutler
>no Richard Greenblatt
>no Bill Gosper
>no James Gosling
>no Dave Moon
>no Bill Atkinson
>no Larry Malone
>no Bill Joy
>no Charles Symonyi
This poll sucks, OP is a newfag.

>>59923025
I wanna write guido as a joke statement, but you're so fucking retarded you'd probably fail to see it as a joke,

>GAHNOOO Commie above Carmack
You retards and your memes

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Bill Gates. Wrote windows.

>>59925826
>>>/v/

>>59923025
>not a single woman in the list
sexist scum

>>59923025
>Stallman is an option

>>59926411
such as?

>>59926591
*crickets chirping*

>>59926591
>such as?
That's why you people are lonely virgins.

>>59923025
Gerald Sussman you mongoloid

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>>59926591
>>59926729
You can always tell who the real computer scientists are, versus the basement dweller pretenders.

Ken Thompson
Created Unix, UTF8 and Go programming language

>>59926812
yeeess, single program for a single machine. while hopper did a great job, it doesn't compare to the likes of knuth, ritchie, tanenbaum or liedtke.

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A modern classic.

>>59926931
She is at least as accomplished as some of the other people listed on that poll.

She is no knuth or ritchie, but that's why they're the correct answer to said poll.

>>59923269
Dijkstra knew the graph algorithm was simple: He explicitely chose a simple algorithm on graphs to showcase his compiler.

The algorithm was well known before him, of course, but his name somehow stuck.

>>59923025
Missing The Woz

>>59923025

http://www.strawpoll.me/12762938

Well, Reddit?

>>59923025

Stallman in his peak when he was living in the air ducts of the MIT AI lab could program circles around these faggots

>>59927779
I don't see CIA on this list

>>59923204
He said programmer
not hack

>>59927672

I saw Woz live. He isn't a programmer in the conventional sense.

>>59927779
You have to go back.

>>59923065>>59923054

He co-wrote the BASIC interpreter for the Altair 1800

>>59923311
this

No Gaben? became a millionaire at microsoft by porting doom to windows

>>59924169
>>59924187
he meant MMIX

not sure why he thinks its relevant since its only relevant for the art of computer programming and only 1% of the planet understands those books

>>59925119
t. pajeet

>>59923025
No Gary Kildall? This poll is ass.

>>59923025
The correct answer is Ritchie.

THE FUCK NO WOZ???

>>59923025
I chose Donald Knuth, the guy is a genius.

>>59924169

Tex isn't that impressive. I would pretty much expect anyone who calls himself a software engineer to be able to create Tex

The art of computer programming is more of a mathematical thing

You autists. If you knew anything about programming you would know the creator of a language is never the best at writing optimized code in it. They might be the best at writing sufficient code in it, but Torvalds knows more about efficient C than its creator.

>>59923130
Sure, but what you failed to mention is that the programming language is just a light abtraction layer away from ASM. Someone else would have made a language which is very similar if he didn't.

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John McCarthy.

>>59923025
Douglas Englebart
Y'all posting in a scrub thread