Who are/were some of the most badass computer programmers? [A Quora Post]

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.

1. Steve Wozniak

He is a nerd of computer architecture design.
He created first Apple computers and coded most of the first Apple software.

2. Dave Cutler

He developed many operating systems including Windows NT kernel (still partly used by Windows).

3. Richard Stallman

He programmed first versions of GCC and Emacs.

4. Donald Knuth

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.

5. John Carmack

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

6. Anders Hejlsberg

He created Turbo Pascal, Delphi and C# languages.

7. Bjarne Stroustrup

He implemented first version of C++,
Computer Science Chairman at Texas A&M University for a decade.
Managing Director of Technology at Morgan Stanley

8. Linus Torvalds

Creator of the Linux kernel, used by hundreds of millions of devices worldwide.

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Source: Quora

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