The 10 Most Influential Programmers in the World

The 10 Most Influential Programmers in the World

A programmer is someone who works to make or modify a programming language. Whatever programming language produced by these programmers has a huge influence on the advancement of computer technology today. In this world there are a number of programmers considered quite influential for progress thanks to the programming language they created. Here is a list of 10 influential programmers in the world.

1. Tim Berners Lee

Sir Timothy John 'TIm' Berners Lee is a British man who is also an influential programmer in the world. Dirinyha is known to the world thanks to its work in the form of the World Wide Web. In 1989 Lee managed to implement communication between the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and the server using the Internet network.

Currently Lee is a director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) which is the result of further development of the web.

2. Bill Gates

Talking about the most influential programmers in the world, of course, Bill Gates's name must be included. In addition to being the richest person in the world, Bill Gates is also a well-known American businessman, programmer, pioneer in the world of computers, investors, and also generous. He was a person who helped build the Microsoft company. At present he is also the leader of the largest computer company in the world. This man has created and developed a Windows operating system which is currently the most widely used operating system in the world.

3. Guido van Rossum

Guido van Rossum is a Dutch programmer known in the world as the author of the Python programming language. His dedication in continuing to develop the Python language made him given the nickname Benevolent Dictator For Life. Seeing his extraordinary dedication, Google then hired Rossum from 2005 to 2012. Where while working at Google, Rossum focused more on developing Python.

After leaving Google, in January 2013 Rossum began working for a cloud storage company called Dropbox.

4. Ken Thompson

This American man whose full name is Kenneth Lane Thompson is a world-renowned pioneer of computer science. This man who is also famous in the world of hackers with the name Ken is the one who designed and implemented Unix system operations using the B programming language. B's programming language itself was an existing programming language before the C programming language.

Thompson is known to have worked at Google since 2006 where he was instrumental in making the Go programming language.

5. Brian Kernighan

Brian Kernighan along with UNIX creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie worked together in a laboratory called Bell Labs. Together with the creators of UNIX, Kernighan, who is a Canadian programmer, contributed significantly to the development of UNIX.

Brian Kernighan is also a person who helps in writing AWK and WSS programming languages. The name Kernighan became more and more known in the world because he helped to help the C programming book along with Dennis Ritchie.

6. Anders Hejlsberg

The Danish programmer is known for his success in developing the C # program language. Not only succeeded in making programming languages, Hejlsberg was also the person who wrote about Turbo Pascal and was also the chief architect of Delphi. Currently he works at a well-known Microsoft company as the main architect of the C # programming language and as the core developer of TypeScript.

7. James Gosling

A computer scientist from Canada, James Arthur Gosling. This programmer has made and developed a programming language that is currently widely used by people, namely the Java language in 1994. Gosling then gave his findings to one of his students when he was making a p-code virtual machine for the Dec Vax laboratory Computer.

Not only did he succeed in making the Java language, Gosling also made several contributions in making the operation of the News and Gosling Emacs system. Thanks to his very important role, he was appointed as a member of the Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Engineering.

8. Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds is a Finnish-American man who works as software engineering. This man plays an important role in the development of Kernal Linux. Then he worked as the chief architect of Linux Kernaldan and acted as the project coordinator.

In 2012, he and Shinya Yamanaka were honored with the Millennium Technology Prize by Technology Academy Finland thanks to his creation of open source system operations.

9. Bjarne Stroustrup

This Danish programmer is a person who was given credit for his efforts in developing C language made by Dennis Ritchie. The results of development have now been widely used in the computer world and are named C ++. What is amazing is the programming language of C ++ that he developed himself without the help of others.

Today Stoustrup works as a professor and owner of the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science at Texas A & M University.

10. Dennis Ritchie

The man with the long name Dennis McAlistair Ritchie is an American national who works as a computer scientist. He has been regarded as one of the most influential programmers in the world. This man made the C programming language that is now widely used by people as the basic language for making programs ...

In addition to making C programming language, Ritchie also operates a system called UNIX. Thanks to the results of his hard work, he won the Turing Award from ACM in 1983, Hamming Medal from IEEC in 1990 and National Medal of Technology from President Clinton in 1999.