10+ greatest computer programmer

1. Ada Lovelace It may be seen as a new age
thing with millions of lines of codes and
imensely powerful computers, but one of the
pioneers of programming was a woman
named Ada Augusta King, a.k.a. Ada
Lovelace. She was a mathematician who
worked on Charles Babbage's mechanical
general purpose computer known as the
Analytical Engine.
2. Niklaus Wirth Widely recognised as one of
the pioneer's of programming, this is the
man who created languages like Pascal,
Euler, Algol and many others.
3. Bill Gates A list of influential or greatest
programmers can never be complete without
mentioning the founder and creator of
Microsoft. He has both admirers and haters,
but no one can deny his contribution.
4. James Gosling This is the man who created
the Java programming language, which is
arguably one of the most influential
languages of all time.
5. Guido van Rossum Have you heard of him?
You've definitely heard of the language he
created. This is the man behind the Python
programming language.
6. Kenneth Thompson Call him Ken because
that's what the hacker community calls him.
He has worked for Google and developed the
Go programming language while working
there. He also developed the original Unix
operating system and a programming
language called B, which was the predecessor
to the illustrious C programming language.
7. Donald Knuth This man is known as the
father of anaylsis of algorithms for his
contributions to the field of analysis and
computational complexity of algorithms.
8. Brian Kernighan He is the co-creator and
developer of the Unix, AWK and AMPL
languages.
9. Tim Berners-Lee If you don't know this
name then you should really work on
increasing your awareness. This is the man
who created the World Wide Web and hence
gave us the lives we have today.
10. Bjarne Stroustrup This man created the C
++ programming language. Yes, the language
that gave rise to so many of the best known
programs and programming languages.
11. Linus Torvalds Little needs to be said
about this man. He's the creator of the Linux
kernel, which is the base for so many
operating systems.
12. Dennis Ritchie C++ is an offspring of the
C programming language and Dennis Ritchie
is the man who created C.