Top 10 best developer in world
Here is the list of top 10 programmers in the world of all time.
1.dennis macAlistair
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist who “helped shape the digital era”. He created the C programming
language and with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating
system. Ritchie and Thompson received the Turing Award from the ACM in
1983, the Hamming Medal from the IEEE in 1990 and the National Medal
of Technology from President Clinton in 1999. Ritchie was the head of
Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007.
2. Bjarne Stroustrup
Bjarne
Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the
creation and development of the widely used C++ programming language. He
is a Distinguished Research Professor and holds the College
of Engineering Chair in Computer Science at Texas A&M University, a
visiting professor at Columbia University, and works at Morgan Stanle
3. James Gosling
James
Arthur Gosling is a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the
father of the Java programming language. James has also made major
contributions to several other software systems, such as NeWS and
Gosling Emacs. Due to his extra-ordinary achievements Gosling was
elected to Foreign Associate member of the United States National
Academy of Engineering.
4. Linus Torvalds
Linus
Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish American software engineer, who was the
principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel. He later
became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as
the project’s coordinator. He also created the revision control system
Git as well as the diving log software Subsurface. He was honored, along
with Shinya Yamanaka, with the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize by the
Technology Academy Finland in recognition of his creation of a new open
source operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux
kernel.
5. Anders Hejlsberg
Anders
Hejlsberg is a prominent Danish software engineer who co-designed
several popular and commercially successful programming languages and
development tools. He is creator of popular programming language C#. He
was the original author of Turbo Pascal and the chief architect of
Delphi. He currently works for Microsoft as the lead architect of C# and
core developer on TypeScript.
6. Tim Berners-Lee
Sir
Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee also known as “TimBL,” is a British
computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He
made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989 and
he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext
Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet.
Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C),
which oversees the Web’s continued development.
7. Brian Kernighan
Brian
Wilson Kernighan is a Canadian computer scientist who worked at Bell
Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie
and contributed to the development of Unix. He is also coauthor of the
AWK and AMPL programming languages. Kernighan’s name became widely known
through co-authorship of the first book on the C programming language
with Dennis Ritchie.
8. Ken Thompson
Kenneth
Thompson commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles is an American
pioneer of computer science. Having worked at Bell Labs for most of his
career, Thompson designed and implemented the original Unix operating
system. He also invented the B programming language, the
direct predecessor to the C programming language, and was one of the
creators and early developers of the Plan 9 operating systems. Since
2006, Thompson works at Google, where he co-invented the Go programming
language.
9. Guido van Rossum
Guido van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming
language. In the Python community, Van Rossum is known as a “Benevolent
Dictator For Life” (BDFL), meaning that he continues to oversee the
Python development process, making decisions where necessary. He was
employed by Google from 2005 until December 7th 2012, where he spent
half his time developing the Python language. In January 2013, Van
Rossum started working for Dropbox.
10. Donald Knuth
Donald
Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and
Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. He is the author of the
multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming. Knuth has been called
the “father” of the analysis of algorithms. He contributed to the
development of the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of
algorithms and systematized formal mathematical techniques for it. In
the process he also popularized the asymptotic notation. Knuth is the
creator of the TeX computer typesetting system, the related METAFONT
font definition language and rendering system and the Computer Modern
family of typefaces.
