Who are the world's top 14 programmers? How many do you know? The rankings are in no order.
01 Jon Skeet
Personal Reputation: Stack Overflow, the top-ranking procedural technology Q&A website, maintains a monthly Q&A volume of about 425.
Personal Profile/Major Honours: Google Software Engineer. His representative work is Deeply Understanding C # (C # In Depth).
Evaluation of Jon Skeet on the Internet:
"He doesn't need a debugger at all. As long as he looks at the code, the mistakes will show themselves."
"If his code fails to compile, the compiler will apologize."
"He doesn't need any programming specifications at all. His code is programming specifications."
02 Gennady Korotkevich
Personal prestige: prodigy of programming contest
Personal Profile/Major Honours: At the age of 11, he participated in the International Olympic Competition in Informatics, creating a record for the youngest player. Between 2007 and 2012, they won six Olympic gold medals; they were members of the American Computer Association Programming Championship team in 2013; and they won the Facebook Hacker Cup in 2014. Up to now, the Russian programming website Codeforces has ranked first in the prestige and ranked first in the TopCoder algorithm contest.
Evaluation of Gennady Korotkevich on the Internet:
"A programming prodigy."
"He's amazing. He's the equivalent of building a strong programming team in Belarus."
"A thorough programming genius."
03 Linus Torvalds
Personal Fame: Father of Linux
Personal Profile/Major Honours:
The father of Linux and Git, an open source operating system;
1998 EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Pioneer Award winner;
2000 Lovelace Medal winner of British Computer Society;
Winner of the Millennium Technology Award in 2012;
In 2014, the winner of the Pioneer Award of the Computer Society of the IEEE (Association of Electrical and Electronic Engineers);
In 2008, he was selected into the Hall of Fame of Computer History Museum.
Enrolled in the Internet Hall of Fame in 2012.
Evaluation of Linus Torvalds on the Internet:
"He's just as good as anything else."
04 Jeff Dean
Personal Fame: The Brain behind Google Search Indexing Technology.
Personal Profile/Major Honours: Designers of Google's large-scale distributed computing systems, such as site crawling, indexing and search, online advertising, MapReduce, BigTable and Spanner. He joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2009, and won the SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award and Infosys Foundation Award in 2012.
Evaluation of Jeff Dean on the Internet:
"Data mining has made a breakthrough development."
"The amazing tools of MapReduce and BigTable can be conceived, created, and released even when all the work is fully scheduled."
05 John Carmack
Personal Fame: The Father of Doom, the Classic First Person Shooting Game Master
Personal Profile/Major Honours: The co-founder of ID Software has produced many popular games, such as Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake. It has led many new technologies in the field of computer display, including adaptive tile refresh (slice adaptation update), binary space partitioning (binary space partitioning), surface caching (plane caching); entering the Hall of Fame of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences in 2001; and winning the Lifetime Achievement Award of Game Developer Selection Award in 2010.
Evaluation of John Carmack on the Internet:
"Many revolutionary first-person shooting games have been produced, affecting generations of game designers."
"He can finish any basic design work in a week."
"He's a programmer Mozart."
06 Richard Stallman
Personal Fame: Emacs Text Editor, the creator of GCC, a multilingual compiler.
Personal Profile/Major Honours: GNU project sponsor has developed many core tools, such as Emacs, GCC, GDB and founder of GU Make Free Software. He won the Grace Murray Hopper Award of the American Computer Association in 1990 and the EFF Pioneer Award in 1998.
Evaluation of Richard Stallman on the Internet:
"I once competed alone with a group of Lisp hackers, that was Symbolics against LMI."
"Although we have different views on things, he must be the most influential programmer, both now and in the future."
07 Petr Mitrechev
Personal reputation: One of the most competitive programmers.
Personal Profile/Major Honours: Gold medal in the International Olympic Information Competition in 2000 and 2012; Facebook Hacker Cup in 2011 and 2013; Google Code Jam Programming Competition and TopCoder Algorithms Open Competition in 2006; TopCoder Petr Algorithms Competition ranks first and fifth in Codeforces so far.
Evaluation of Petr Mitrechev on the Internet:
"Even in India, he's an icon in the minds of programming contestants."
08 Fabrice Bellard
Personal Fame: Develop free software QEMU for analog processors.
Personal Profile/Major Honours: Many well-known open source software have been developed, such as QEMU hardware simulation virtual platform, FFmpeg multimedia data processing software, Tiny C compiler, LZEXE decompression software. In 2000 and 2001, he won the championship of the International C Language Chaotic Code Design Competition; in 2011, he won the Google O'Reilly Open Source Design Award; and he was the former world record holder of circumference calculation accuracy.
Evaluation of Fabrice Bellard on the Internet:
"His works are always impressive and brilliant."
"The most creative programmer in the world."
"He's Nicolas Tesla in software engineering."
09 Doug Cutting
Personal reputation: Lucene, an open source full-text search engine toolkit, has been developed.
Personal Profile/Major Honours: In addition to Lucene, we have also developed the famous web crawler tool Nutch, distributed system infrastructure Hadoop, all of which are open source masterpieces. He is currently chairman of the Apache Software Foundation.
Evaluation of Doug Cutting on the Internet:
"He developed an excellent full-text search engine toolkit (Lucene/Solr) and opened the door to big data for the world."
"Open source Lucene and Hadoop have created countless wealth and jobs around the world."
10 Donald Knuth
Personal Fame: Author of The Art of Computer Programming.
Personal Profile/Major Honours: Several influential theoretical books on programming; the invention of TeX digital typesetting system; the first person to win the Grace Murray Hopper Award of the American Computer Association in 1971; the A.M. Turning Award of the American Computer Association in 1974; the National Medal of Science and Technology in 1979; and the John von N. N. of the Association of Electrical and Electronic Engineers in 1995. Eumann Medal; 1998 was included in the directory of Computer History Museum.
Evaluation of Donald Knuth on the Internet:
"I've had the privilege of using a large software that is infinitely close to zero error. It's TeX."
11 Anders Hejlsberg
Personal fame: Turbo Pascal was created.
Personal Profile/Major Honours: Turbo Pascal, the original author of Turbo Pascal, is one of the most popular Pascal compilers and the first integrated development environment for Pascal. Leading the development of Turbal Pascal successor Delphi. Chief C# Designer and Architect; Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming honor in 2011.
Evaluation of Anders Hejlsberg on the Internet:
"My revered master programmer is my guide to professional software designers."
12 Ken Thompson
Personal Fame: Creating Unix
Personal Profile / Major Honours: Created Unix with Dennis Ritchie.
It is also the creator and designer of B programming language, UTF-8 encoding and ED text editor. One of the developers of Go programming language. Together with Ritchie, he was awarded the A.M. Turning Award of the American Computer Association in 1983; the Pioneer Award of the Computer Society of the IEEE (Association of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) in 1994; the National Science and Technology Medal in 1998; and the Directory of the Computer History Museum in 1997.
Evaluation of Ken Thompson on the Internet:
"The most outstanding programmer in the world."
13 Adam D'Angelo
Personal Fame: One of the founders of Quora, a question-and-answer SNS website.
Personal Profile / Major Honours: Former Facebook CTO, Vice President of Research and Development, created the infrastructure of news feed. One of the founders of Quora, the SNS website. In 2001, he participated in the American Computer Olympics as a senior high school student, and finally won the eighth place. In 2004, he helped California Institute of Technology to win the silver medal of ACM International College Programming Competition. In 2005, he entered the final of Topcoder University Inter-University Algorithms Competition.
Evaluation of Adam D'Angelo on the Internet:
"A full-time programmer."
Mark Zuckerberg commented: "Every good thing I do, he can make six."
14 Sanjay Ghemawat
Personal Reputation: A Core Person in the Google Architect Team.
Personal Profile / Major Honours: Helping Google design and launch large publishing computing systems, including MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner and Google File System. Developed a Unix Calendar System; entered the National Institute of Engineering in 2009; winner of the Infosys Foundation Award of the American Computer Association in 2012.