These are/were some of the most badass computer programmers
Are you a badass programmer just because you used the first mainframes?
Do you think so?
Well look at these big 8 who killed it…stone dead.
- He is a nerd of computer architecture design.
- He created first Apple computers and coded most of the first Apple software.
- He developed many operating systems including Windows NT kernel (still partly used by Windows).
- He programmed first versions of GCC and Emacs.
- Besides literally writing the book of programming, he created TeX (a typesetting system) which is still being used and he originally created this for writing better-looking TAOCP books.
- He wrote the game engine for Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein games only by himself.
- He also used a square root algorithm faster than respective machine instruction
- He created Turbo Pascal, Delphi and C# languages.
- He implemented first version of C++,
- Computer Science Chairman at Texas A&M University for a decade.
- Managing Director of Technology at Morgan Stanley
- Creator of the Linux kernel, used by hundreds of millions of devices worldwide.
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