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August 18, 2022 [OT] Greatest language designers | ||||
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 | Who are the greatest language designers, and why? :-) Of course we have Walter here in our midst, other greats are of course Bjarne Stroustrop, Anders Hejlsberg and James Gosling. I think Anders has made the biggest impact in my coding life, and I continue to be really impressed with how he is managing large teams in developing top notch programming languages and environments. Who else should be added to the list, and why? | |||
August 19, 2022 Re: [OT] Greatest language designers | ||||
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 Posted in reply to Abdulhaq | On Thursday, 18 August 2022 at 14:22:28 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: >Who are the greatest language designers, and why? :-) Of course we have Walter here in our midst, other greats are of course Bjarne Stroustrop, Anders Hejlsberg and James Gosling. I think Anders has made the biggest impact in my coding life, and I continue to be really impressed with how he is managing large teams in developing top notch programming languages and environments. Who else should be added to the list, and why? gonna include John McCarthy right away. why include Stroustrop but not Dennis Ritchie? i'm not big fan of C or C++ tho | |||
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 Posted in reply to Abdulhaq | On Thursday, 18 August 2022 at 14:22:28 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: >Who are the greatest language designers, and why? :-) Of course we have Walter here in our midst, other greats are of course Bjarne Stroustrop, Anders Hejlsberg and James Gosling. I think Anders has made the biggest impact in my coding life, and I continue to be really impressed with how he is managing large teams in developing top notch programming languages and environments. Who else should be added to the list, and why? Eric Lippert | |||
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 Posted in reply to Abdulhaq | On Thursday, 18 August 2022 at 14:22:28 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: >Who are the greatest language designers, and why? :-) Of course we have Walter here in our midst, other greats are of course Bjarne Stroustrop, Anders Hejlsberg and James Gosling. I think Anders has made the biggest impact in my coding life, and I continue to be really impressed with how he is managing large teams in developing top notch programming languages and environments. Who else should be added to the list, and why? Niklaus Wirth | |||
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 Posted in reply to Jack | On 8/18/2022 6:58 PM, Jack wrote:
> gonna include John McCarthy right away. why include Stroustrop but not Dennis Ritchie? i'm not big fan of C or C++ tho
Their influence on the industry is enormous.
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August 19, 2022 Re: [OT] Greatest language designers | ||||
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 Posted in reply to Walter Bright | On Friday, 19 August 2022 at 11:38:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/18/2022 6:58 PM, Jack wrote:
>> gonna include John McCarthy right away. why include Stroustrop but not Dennis Ritchie? i'm not big fan of C or C++ tho
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> Their influence on the industry is enormous.
I think Dennis Ritchie is more, C is the pinnacle of the languages.
Matheus.
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August 19, 2022 Re: [OT] Greatest language designers | ||||
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Posted in reply to matheus | On Friday, 19 August 2022 at 11:58:32 UTC, matheus wrote:
> On Friday, 19 August 2022 at 11:38:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 8/18/2022 6:58 PM, Jack wrote:
>>> gonna include John McCarthy right away. why include Stroustrop but not Dennis Ritchie? i'm not big fan of C or C++ tho
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>> Their influence on the industry is enormous.
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> I think Dennis Ritchie is more, C is the pinnacle of the languages.
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> Matheus.
Could probably sneak Ken Thompson in with Dennis as they both worked on B, which eventually Dennis took influence from when creating C, arguably a lot of the core ideas of C were rooted back in B.
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August 19, 2022 Re: [OT] Greatest language designers | ||||
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 Posted in reply to Abdulhaq | On Thursday, 18 August 2022 at 14:22:28 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: >Who are the greatest language designers, and why? :-) Of course we have Walter here in our midst, other greats are of course Bjarne Stroustrop, Anders Hejlsberg and James Gosling. I think Anders has made the biggest impact in my coding life, and I continue to be really impressed with how he is managing large teams in developing top notch programming languages and environments. Who else should be added to the list, and why? After the list finalisation this page could be enriched with some names :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_language_researchers | |||
August 19, 2022 Re: [OT] Greatest language designers | ||||
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 Posted in reply to bauss | On Friday, 19 August 2022 at 12:06:09 UTC, bauss wrote: >Could probably sneak Ken Thompson in with Dennis as they both worked on B, which eventually Dennis took influence from when creating C, arguably a lot of the core ideas of C were rooted back in B. A?B?C?D?...! | |||
August 19, 2022 Re: [OT] Greatest language designers | ||||
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 Posted in reply to Abdulhaq | On Thursday, 18 August 2022 at 14:22:28 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: >Who are the greatest language designers, and why? :-) Of course we have Walter here in our midst, other greats are of course Bjarne Stroustrop, Anders Hejlsberg and James Gosling. I think Anders has made the biggest impact in my coding life, and I continue to be really impressed with how he is managing large teams in developing top notch programming languages and environments. Who else should be added to the list, and why? Rich Hickey showed functional languages can be practical. Martin Odersky combined functional and object oriented in a practical way. This is not to take away from others that worked with functional languages. A lot of names could go on this list for demonstrating that language design doesn't matter for language popularity. | |||
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