The greatest ten programmers in the history of software (text)

International news, a foreign community website on the "Software history of the greatest ten programmers" made a selection, the results are as follows:

1,john Carmack (John Carmack)

John is the godfather of the programmer. He has worked hard to overthrow the world's fast-industrializing barriers and, while leading the wave of the times, can still make research a part of the game, and its contribution is awe-inspiring. His innovations in computer graphics have brought us Wolfenstein, Doom & Quake.



2,linus Torvalds (Linus Torvalds)

The father of Linux, who wants to create a UNIX-like operating system for PCs, has not only achieved this goal, but has created a creative revolution in software-open source.



3,tim Berners-lee (Tim Bernas Li Hu)

World Wide The inventor of the Web, what he brings to the Internet has affected people all over the globe.


4,douglas Andrew Bell

He developed a well-known game: Dungeon Master, and took the RPG game into a new era. Although graphic technology has made great strides over the years, thousands of games are still replicating the inventory system he created in 1987.

5,dennis Ritchie (Dennis Ritchie)

The father of the C language. Dennis Ritchie is deeply studied in many fields, including: C, Altran, B, Bcpl and UNIX. In particular, he had a major impact on C, a book he co-authored with Brian Kernighan: The C programming language is undoubtedly the best programming book in history.



6,bram Cohen (Bram Cohn)

The father of BitTorrent technology. Bram wrote the BitTorrent protocol to allow file sharing. The technology is now being used in every corner of the Internet.



7,rasmus Lerdorf, Andi Gutmans & Zeev Suraski

The father of PHP. PHP is now running on 34% of web pages on the Internet.

Rasmus Lerdorf


Andi Gutmans


Zeev Suraski

8,jez San

Argonaut's founder, even if the top executive is still committed to programming, his code often relies on cutting-edge technology in the forefront of the breakthrough is a bright spot.



9,bjarne Stroustrup

The father of C + +. Without him from C to C + + led this step, we will do.


10,richard Bartle,roy Trubshaw

Together they wrote the first online multiplayer online game. The first MUD (multi-user level), written at the University of Essex, became a way for users to communicate in the network, part of the internet culture. "Wen: na Don't shout"

Richard Bartle,roy Trubshaw