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Here we will recall 10 greatest programmers of all time and their immense contribution.
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Sunday, October 26, 2014:
Programmers are the key people behind creating as well as modifying
computer programmers. Programmers have huge contribution to the computer
world and there are some programmers who have contributed in an
extraordinary way. These programmers have actually emerged as pioneers
and they have redefined certain areas of the technology world. So here
we will recall 10 greatest programmers of all time and their immense
contribution.
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1. Dennis Ritchie:
An American computer scientist,
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie, is remembered for pioneering the digital
era. He created C programming language which is mostly used in
developing software applications and operating systems. He is also the
co-creator of UNIX operating system. After he passed away on 12 October,
2011, Fedora 16 Linux distro was released in his memory.
2. Bjarne Stroustrup:
A
Danish computer scientist, Stroustrup is remembered for his creation
of C++ programming language. He invented the language, evolved it and
then produced its first implementation too. He still holds the position
of College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science at Texas A&M
University and he is also a visiting professor at Columbia University.
3. Linus Torvalds:
Torvalds
is a Finnish American software engineer who has developed Linux kernel.
He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel and now he is
the project coordinator. In 2012 he was presented with the Millennium
Technology Prize by the Technology Academy Finland for creating the new
open source operating system. Torvalds also created the distributed
version control system called Git in 2005.
4. James Gosling:
A
Canadian computer scientist, Gosling, is known as the father of Java
programming language. He is also known for his contributions to other
software systems like NeWS and Gosling Emacs. He has coded a number of
other programs too. He was elected as the Foreign Associate member of
the United States National Academy of Engineering.
5. Tim Berners-Lee:
Lee
is a British computer scientist who has created World Wide Web and also
implemented first successful communication between Hypertext Transfer
Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet. He is the director
of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
6. Anders Hejlsberg:
Hejlsberg
is a renowned Danish software engineer who co-designed popular
programming languages and created C# programming language. He is also
the author of Turbo Pascal and the chief architect of Delphi. Now he is
the lead architect of C# at Microsoft and core developer on TypeScript.
7. Brian Kernighan:
He
is again a Canadian computer scientist who is the co-creator and
developer of UNIX. He also co-created AWK and AMPL programming
languages. Presently he is working as a Professor and the Undergraduate
Department Representative at the Computer Science Department of
Princeton University. He has authored several UNIX programs including
ditroff and cron for Version 7 Unix.
8. Ken Thompson:
Kenneth
Thompson is considered as the pioneer of computer science. He designed
and implemented the original Unix OS and invented B programming
language, which is being succeeded by C language. He also co-created
Plan 9 operating systems and he has been working with Google since 2006.
He also co-invented Go programming language.
9. Donald Knuth:
An
American computer scientist and also a mathematician, Knuth is called
the “Father of the Analysis of Algorithms”. He has huge contributions in
developing analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms and
systematised formal mathematical techniques for it. He is also the
creator of TeX computer typesetting system and the METAFONT font
definition language and rendering system. He has also created the
Computer Modern family of typefaces.
10. Guido van Rossum:
Rossum
is a Dutch computer programmer and the author of Python programming
language. He worked with Google from 2005 to 2012 and in January 2013 he
started working with Dropbox. He developed Python language while
working with Google.
Sanchari Banerjee, EFYTIMES News Network
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