程序员们敬仰一下这些家伙吧

如果你是程序员，可以看看自己知道下面多少人，如果没有他们，我们就没有今天的it文明。
转自http://www.codersatwork.com/names.html?order=popularity
CODERS at WORK

Here are the two hundred eighty-four names that have been suggested to me as people I might want to interview. Thanks to everyone who submitted names. Thanks also to the people who took the time to try their hand at sorting the list; their efforts provide the measure of popularity used to sort the list. If your name is on this list please don’t be insulted if you feel the brief description I’ve given here misrepresents your life’s work or if your name is distressingly low down on the popularity ranking. While I am interested in what the wisdom of the crowd has to say about who’d be interesting interview subjects, in the end I’ll follow my own council when selecting who to approach for interviews. There are several folks well down on the popularity ranking who I’d love to have a chance to interview.

Now that I’m getting ready to start contacting potential interviewees, I’m really getting going on my research. If you click on any of the names in this list you can see what information I’ve got so far and can help me out by adding to it if you want. As I mentioned on the front page, at this point the best way to make a case for someone you really think I should interview is to add information about them so I have the best chance to realize why they’d be interesting to talk to. If you want to add a more general comment feel free, as always, to send me email or to leave a comment on the comments page.

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# Name Description

1 	Peter Norvig 	Director of Research at Google and author of the standard text on AI.
2 	Alan Kay 	Inventor of Smalltalk. Coined the term "object-oriented programming".
3 	Guy Steele 	Co-inventor of Scheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang of Five. Currently working on Fortress.
4 	Donald Knuth 	Author of The Art of Computer Programming and TeX
5 	Gerald Jay Sussman 	Co-creator of Scheme and co-author of The Structure And Interpretation of Computer Programs.
6 	John McCarthy 	Invented Lisp
7 	John Carmack 	Founder of id Software; lead programmer of Doom, Quake, and others.
8 	Joe Armstrong 	Inventor of Erlang
9 	Dennis Ritchie 	Invented C and contributed to development of UNIX
10 	Ken Thompson 	Inventor of UNIX
11 	Brian Kernighan 	The K in AWK and K&R. Author of the original "hello, world" program.
12 	Guido van Rossum 	Invented Python
13 	Linus Torvalds 	Wrote and maintains Linux kernel. Wrote GIT version control system.
14 	Steve Wozniak 	Wrote most of the original Apple II software.
15 	Bill Joy 	Wrote BSD TCP/IP stack, vi
16 	Simon Peyton Jones 	Co-inventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell Compiler.
17 	Alan Cox 	One of Linus Torvalds's main lieutenants. Wrote Linux TCP/IP code.
18 	Larry Wall 	Invented Perl
19 	Jamie Zawinski 	Author of XEmacs and early Netscape/Mozilla hacker.
20 	Theo de Raadt 	Founder of OpenBSD project. Original author of OpenSSH.
21 	Robert Morris 	Wrote the Internet Worm and co-founded Viaweb with Paul Graham
22 	Ward Cunningham 	Wrote the first Wiki and FIT.
23 	Edi Weitz 	Lisp library hacker extraordinaire. Co-organizer of the European Common Lisp Meetings 2005 and 2006
24 	Chuck Moore 	Invented Forth
25 	Tim Sweeney 	Founder of Epic Games. Wrote the Unreal Engine.
26 	Brendan Eich 	Invented Javascript
27 	Fabrice Bellard 	Wrote QEMU, TinyCC, FFMPEG; Winner of 2001 IOCCC
28 	Paul Graham 	Lisp hacker and author.
29 	Yukihiro Matsumoto 	Invented Ruby
30 	Dan Bernstein 	Wrote djbns and qmail
31 	Andrew Tridgell 	Wrote Samba file server and co-invented rsync algorithm
32 	Andy Gavin 	Co-founder of Naughty Dog software. Wrote GOAL which was used to develop Jak and Daxter.
33 	Brad Fitzpatrick 	Wrote LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached, Perlbal
34 	Andrew Tanenbaum 	Created Minix, advocate for micro-kernels.
35 	Michael Abrash 	Optimization expert
36 	Bram Cohen 	Wrote BitTorrent
37 	Miguel de Icaza 	Wrote GNOME and Mono
38 	Hal Abelson 	Abelson of Abelson and Sussman. MIT professor.
39 	Rob Pike 	Author of first bitmap windowing system for Unix. Worked on Plan 9. Now works at Google.
40 	Richard Stallman 	Wrote Emacs, gcc, and started the Free Software movement.
41 	Douglas Engelbart 	Invented computer mouse
42 	Marvin Minsky 	Artifical Intelligence researcher
43 	Audrey Tang 	Leader of Pugs project to implement Perl 6 in Haskell
44 	Bruce Schneier 	Security expert. Creator of Twofish block cipher.
45 	Philip Greenspun 	Author of Greenspun's Tenth Law and sometimes instructor at MIT
46 	Stephen Wolfram 	Invented Mathematica
47 	James Gosling 	Invented Java, NeWS windowing system.
48 	Erik Naggum 	Lisp hacker
49 	Frances Allen 	Pioneer in optimizing compilers. First woman to win Turing Award (2006) and first woman IBM fellow.
50 	Paul Buchheit 	Creator of GMail
51 	Bjarne Stroustrup 	Invented C++
52 	Justin Frankel 	Wrote Winamp, NSIS, and Gnutella
53 	Anders Hejlsberg 	Lead architect of C#, Architect of Delphi at Borland. Wrote what became Turbo Pascal
54 	Bill Gosper 	One of the original MIT hackers. Worked on Lisp machines, Maclisp, and Macsyma
55 	David Heinemeier Hansson 	Invented Rails
56 	L. Peter Deutsch 	Author of Ghostscript, Implemented Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5 on PDP-1
57 	Andy Hertzfeld 	Key Macintosh developer
58 	Whitfield Diffie 	Discovered principle of public key cryptography
59 	Wil Shipley 	Wrote Delicious Monster. Founded Omni Group
60 	Raymond Chen 	Worked on OS/2, Windows 95, and Direct X
61 	Charles Simonyi 	Invented Hungarian notation. Original author of Microsoft Word. Head of the IP project at Microsoft, now running intentsoft.com
62 	Richard Gabriel 	Lisper and Poet. Currently a Distinguished Engineer at IBM. Chair of OOPSLA 2007.
63 	Sergey Brin 	Founded Google
64 	Martin Fowler 	Chief Scientist at Thoughtworks. Author of Refactoring and many other books.
65 	Gregor Kiczales 	Wrote Common Lisp MOP. Invented Aspect Oriented programming.
66 	Dan Ingalls 	Smalltalk implementor and designer.
67 	Matt Dillon 	FreeBSD hacker, founded DragonFly BSD project
68 	Steve Yegge 	Blogger and Googler
69 	Why the lucky stiff 	Core Ruby developer and free spirit
70 	Leslie Lamport 	Distributed systems researcher and developer of LaTeX
71 	Xavier Leroy 	Primary developer of OCaml. Wrote LinuxThreads threading package used in pre 2.6 Linux kernels
72 	Alexander Stepanov 	Author of the Standard Template Library for C++
73 	Marc Andreessen 	Co-wrote Mosaic. Founded Netscape.
74 	Douglas Crockford 	JSON founder, JavaScript Architect at Yahoo!
75 	Larry Page 	Founded Google
76 	Douglas McIlroy 	Unix toolsmith; invented Unix pipelines
77 	Zed Shaw 	Wrote Mongrel (Rails HTTP server)
78 	Bill Atkinson 	Early Mac developer. Designed and implemented Hypercard
79 	David Cutler 	Architect of VMS and Windows NT
80 	Danny Hillis 	Founder of Thinking Machines
81 	Roy Fielding 	One of the principle authors of HTTP specification. Invented REST. Co-founder of Apache project
82 	Olin Shivers 	Comp Sci professor interested in Scheme and ML. Wrote scsh
83 	Aaron Swartz 	Invented web.py
84 	Allison Randal 	Architect of Parrot virtual machine
85 	Josh Bloch 	Author of Java collections framework. Now at Google.
86 	Vinton Cerf 	Father of TCP/IP
87 	Trevor Blackwell 	Principal at Viaweb. Now founder and CEO of Anybots
88 	Mark Pilgrim 	Wrote Universal Feed Parser. Author of Dive into Python and Dive into Accessibility.
89 	Van Jacobson 	Redesigned TCP/IP flow control algorithms, saving the net from total collapse. Eponymous inventor of Van Jacobson TCP/IP header compression.
90 	Bruce Momjian 	Core PostgreSQL developer
91 	Henry Baker 	One of the founder of Symbolics; comp sci. researcher
92 	Brad Cox 	Invented Objective C
93 	Bill Gates 	Wrote BASIC for Altair
94 	Jonathan Rees 	Designed T dialect of Scheme and co-wrote Scheme 48
95 	Bertrand Meyer 	Invented Eiffel
96 	Ivan Sutherland 	Invented Sketchpad, precursor to modern GUIs
97 	Niklaus Wirth 	Invented Pascal, Modula, Oberon
98 	Alex Martelli 	Co-author of Python Cookbook and Author of Python in a Nutshell
99 	Philip Wadler 	Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh. Contributed to design of Java, Haskell, and XQuery.
100 	Mark Shuttleworth 	Founded Thawte and Ubuntu project. Previously a Debian developer
101 	Tom Lane 	Core PostgreSQL developer responsible for optimizer.
102 	Richard Hipp 	Wrote sqlite embedded SQL database
103 	Ingo Molnár 	Linux hacker, author of many Linux perfomance improvements.
104 	Bruce Eckel 	Founding member of ANSI/ISO C++ committee. Author of Thinking in Java and Thinking in C++.
105 	Kent Pitman 	Technical Editor of Common Lisp ANSI standard
106 	Richard Greenblatt 	Main implementor of Maclisp on PDP-6. Co-founded Lisp Machines, Inc.
107 	Jeff Rubin 	According to Richard Gabriel a "code-writing savant".
108 	Adrian Holovaty 	Lead developer of Django
109 	Jon Bentley 	Author of Programming Pearls books.
110 	Kent Beck 	Creator of XP
111 	Bram Moolenaar 	Wrote VIM (Vi IMproved)
112 	Tom Duff 	Invented Duff's device and noted graphics programmer
113 	Dave Fox 	Lisp hacker, directior of Lispworks Ltd.
114 	Marco Baringer 	Common Lisp hacker, author of Uncommon Web
115 	Luke Gorrie 	Lisp and Erlang hacker. Project lead for SLIME.
116 	Alain Colmerauer 	Invented Prolog
117 	John Foderaro 	Original author of Franz's Allegro Common Lisp
118 	Don Stewart 	Haskell hacker
119 	Elizabeth Rather 	Colleague of Chuck Moore and second ever Forth programmer
120 	Ka-Ping Yee 	Python hacker extraordinaire.
121 	Jeff Dean 	Google Fellow in Systems Infrastructure Group. Co-inventor of MapReduce.
122 	Tim Peters 	Python hacker and author of Spambayes
123 	Rasmus Lerdorf 	Invented PHP
124 	Alvy Ray Smith 	Graphics pioneer. Worked at LucasFilm, helped found Pixar.
125 	Marshall Kirk McKusick 	Designed Berkeley Fast File System.
126 	Steve Russell 	One of John McCarthy's grad students. Brought Lisp to life by hand-coding EVAL in assembler. Wrote Spacewar.
127 	Damian Conway 	Perl hacker and three time winner of the Larry Wall award. Wrote Lingua::Romana::Perligata and others.
128 	Ola Bini 	Core JRuby developer
129 	Poul-Henning Kamp 	FreeBSD kernel hacker
130 	Ellen Spertus 	Head of Interdisciplinary Computer Science department at Mills College
131 	Wietse Venema 	Wrote Postfix. Co-wrote Satan and TCT
132 	Charles Nutter 	Principle JRuby developer
133 	Jim Hugunin 	Original author of Iron Python, now at Microsoft working on dynamic languages on the CLR. Co-designer of AspectJ language, lead development through 1.1 release.
134 	Roberto Ierusalimschy 	Invented Lua
135 	Edward Feigenbaum 	Father of Expert Systems
136 	Urs Hölzle 	Researcher behind Sun's HotSpot JVM technology.
137 	P.J. Plauger 	Worked on first commercial C compiler
138 	Tom Lord 	Scheme and C hacker. Wrote GNU Arch
139 	Erich Gamma 	One of the Gang of Four
140 	Jarkko Oikarinen 	Started IRC
141 	Mitchell Kapor 	Founded Lotus
142 	Don Hopkins 	Invented Pie Menus, working on One Laptop Per Child project.
143 	Paul Vixie 	Wrote BIND
144 	Michael Feathers 	XP guru
145 	Janus Friis 	Founder of Joost, Skype, Kazaa
146 	John Ousterhout 	Invented TCL
147 	Graham Nelson 	Invented Inform language used to program interatvive fiction
148 	Eric Meijer 	Architect in SQL server group at Microsoft working on combining functional programming with the CLR and SQL
149 	Udi Manber 	VP of Engineering at Google. Co-author of Glimpse, Agrep, and Harvest search packages.
150 	Mark Zuckerberg 	Founder and CEO of Facebook
151 	Scott McKay 	Lisp and Dylan designer.
152 	Keith Packard 	X Windows hacker, founded X.Org Server project
153 	Paul Allen 	Co-founded Microsoft.
154 	Richard Kelsey 	Co-wrote Scheme 48 and edited R5RS
155 	Amy Fowler 	Core Java Swing developer
156 	Butler Lampson 	Systems pioneer. Worked on Xerox's Alto.
157 	Dan Bricklin 	Wrote Visicalc
158 	Nick Bradbury 	Wrote HomeSite, TopStyle, and FeedDemon
159 	Ralph Johnson 	One of the Gang of Four
160 	John Gilmore 	Contributor to several GNU projects. Co-author of Bootstrap protocol which became DHCP. Founder of EFF, Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus solutions.
161 	Carla Schroder 	Long-time Linux geek.
162 	Zack Rusin 	Qt graphics guru
163 	Donald Chamberlin 	Principle designer of SQL; ACM Intercollegiate Programming Contest judge, 1998-2005
164 	Rick Olsen 	Core Rails developer, wrote Mephisto and Beast
165 	Joe Marshall 	Lisp hacker
166 	Gavin King 	Original author of Hibernate, JBoss Seam
167 	Martin Odersky 	Invented Scala
168 	James Duncan Davidson 	Started Apache Ant and Apache Tomcat projects. Author of Java Servlet API and Java API for XML processing J2EE specifications.
169 	Richard Karp 	Researcher in theory of algorithms
170 	Brian Behlendorf 	Apache organizer
171 	Dan Farmer 	Co-wrote Satan and TCT
172 	Roger Hui 	Implementor of of J language
173 	Ray Ozzie 	Main architect of Lotus Notes. Now Chief Software Architect at Microsoft.
174 	Scott Meyers 	Author of Effective C++, More Effective C++, Effective STL
175 	Henry Spencer 	Wrote Unix regex library later incorporated into Tcl and Perl. Co-wrote C News news server
176 	Steve Dekorte 	Invented Io language.
177 	Jim Blinn 	Graphics Fellow at Microsoft
178 	Evan Phoenix 	Author of Rubinus compiler/virtual machine for Ruby
179 	Ray Tomlinson 	Wrote first networked email system and gave us the @-sign in email addresses.
180 	Larry Osterman 	Longtime Microsoftie
181 	Russ Cox 	Worked on Plan 9. Represented U.S. at 1995 International Olympiad in Informatics
182 	Paul 'Rusty' Russell 	One of Linus Torvald's top deputies. Wrote ipchains and netfilter/iptables packet filtering code
183 	Peter Van Roy 	Contributor to Mozart/Oz programming system. Author of Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
184 	Matt Mackall 	Wrote Mecurial version control system.
185 	Chris Wanstrath 	Notable Rails programmer
186 	Niklas Zennstrom 	Founder of Joost, Skype, Kazaa
187 	David Korn 	Wrote the Korn shell
188 	Avi Bryant 	Co-founder Dabble DB
189 	Barry Boehem 	Software metrics guru
190 	Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 	Wrote Gnus and Gmane
191 	Jacob Kaplan-Moss 	Django developer. Wrote Tivo apps in Python and now hacking Python on the PSP
192 	John Mashey 	Early Unix hacker
193 	Keith Bostic 	Worked on BSD at Berkeley and one of the original authors of BerkeleyDB
194 	Gavin Schmidt 	Programmer on GISS climate modeling software.
195 	Robert Martin 	Founder and CEO of Object Mentor. C++ and Agile methods expert.
196 	Adele Goldberg 	Smalltalk designer and documenter.
197 	Dan Geer 	Security expert
198 	Austin Meyer 	Author of X-Plane and Space Combat flight simulators
199 	Neil Hodgson 	Wrote Scintilla and SciTE
200 	Doug Lea 	Concurrency expert and systems programmer.
201 	Brian Harvey 	UC Comp Sci professor. Author of Berkeley Logo
202 	Paul Haeberli 	Computer graphics researcher
203 	Rob McCool 	Wrote NCSA HTTPd; drafted Common Gateway Interface specification
204 	Radia Perlman 	Invented spanning-tree protocol
205 	Stefan Meyer-Kahlen 	Author of Shredder chess program
206 	Alessandro Rubini 	Linux kernel hacker
207 	Craig McClanahan 	Original author of Apache Struts
208 	Will Crowther 	Wrote Adventure and the inner packet processing loop of the original internet IMPs
209 	Marcus Ranum 	Security expert and author of Firewall Toolkit and Network Flight Recorder
210 	Wouter van Oortmerssen 	Game programmer and language designer
211 	Eric Allman 	Wrote sendmail
212 	Andrew Hunt 	Co-founder of Pragmatic Programmers
213 	Arthur Whitney 	Invented A+ and K languages and wrote prototype of J language
214 	Dave Thomas 	Co-founder of Pragmatic Programmers
215 	Dan Piponi 	Graphics programmer and theorist.
216 	Peter Weinberger 	The W in AWK
217 	Thomas Enebo 	Principle JRuby developer
218 	Richard Helm 	One of the Gang of Four
219 	Bob Scheifler 	Led the development of X Windows while the X Consortium was at MIT
220 	Charles Hedrick 	Lisp Unix hacker
221 	Guillaume Laforge 	Groovy project lead
222 	Ilya Zakharevich 	Major contributor to perl5 including a major reworking of the regex engine.
223 	John Vlissides 	One of the Gang of Four
224 	Dominic Giampaolo 	Wrote BeOS file system
225 	Salvatore Sanfilippo 	Software developer and security expert
226 	Rod Johnson 	Original author of Spring Framework
227 	Mathias Feist 	Co-author of Fritz chess program.
228 	Sam Leffler 	BSD hacker. Wrote FreeBSD wi-fi drivers
229 	Chris Torek 	BSDI os hacker
230 	Mike Karels 	System architect of BSD 4.3 and 4.4 releases.
231 	Jeff Mogul 	HP Fellow working on networking performance. Contributed to HTTP 1.1 spec
232 	Rob Barnaby 	Worked some on early Logo, wrote Word Star. Also did Stringcomp, an early string processing language.
233 	Eric Bina 	Co-wrote Mosaic.
234 	Simon Willison 	Django developer. Hacker Liason for Yahoo UK
235 	Frans Morsch 	Co-author of Fritz chess program.
236 	John Harper 	Wrote librep and the sawfish window manager
237 	Spencer Janssen 	Wrote xmonad, a tiling window manager implemened in Haskell
238 	John Socha 	Wrote many DOS software packages for Norton Computing
239 	Peter Karp 	Responsible for the development of BioCyc
240 	Mark Maybee 	Worked on ZFS DMU at Sun.
241 	Graeme Rocher 	Grails project lead
242 	Dan Sugalski 	Original architect of Parrot VM
243 	Peter Norton 	Wrote the first version of the Norton Utilities
244 	Erik Benson 	Cheif Janitorial Officer - Robot Coop
245 	Mark Fletcher 	Founder Bloglines, egroups
246 	Graham Spencer 	Co-founder Excite & Jot-Spot
247 	Mark Jason Dominus 	Perl programmer; author of Higher Order Perl
248 	Sape Mullender 	Member of Technical Staff, Lucent Technologies,Bell Labs Innovations, Computing Sciences Research, Murray Hill, New Jersey.
249 	Paul Mackerras 	Samba developer
250 	Val Henson 	Kernel hacker and file systems specialist.
251 	Greg Linden 	Founder Findory & worked at Amazon
252 	Dick Wall 	Co-host of the Java Posse podcast. Works at Google.
253 	Spencer Kimball 	Co-wrote GIMP. Googler.
254 	Jeff Bonwick 	Chief architect of ZFS
255 	Peter Mattis 	Co-wrote GIMP. Googler.
256 	Bernie Cosell 	One of the main software guys behind the original ARPANET IMP's and a master debugger.
257 	Shay Bushinsky 	Co-author of Junior chess program.
258 	Dennis Crawley 	DodgeBall
259 	Rainer Joswig 	Contributes to CL-HTTP
260 	Biz Stone 	Twitter
261 	Max Levchin 	Co-founder Pay Pal & Slide
262 	Joel Reymont 	Open Poker
263 	Jon Kleinberg 	Cornell Comp. Sci. professor.
264 	Joel Spolsky 	FogCreekSoftware
265 	Munjal Shah 	Co-founder Riya
266 	Dierk Koenig. 	Groovy, Grails contributor
267 	Peter-Paul Koch 	Javascript guru. Maintains quirksmode website.
268 	Frank Heart 	Managed the group that built the ARPANET.
269 	Amir Ban 	Co-author of Junior chess program.
270 	Watts Humphrey 	CMM guru.
271 	Rusty Bobrow 	BBNer doing work in computational linguistics, speech recognition, and artificial intelligence.
272 	Simon Tatham 	Author of PuTTY
273 	Thomas Knoll 	Original creator of Photoshop.
274 	Eric Swildens 	Founder Microline Software, Co-founder Speedera Networks
275 	Evan Williams 	Twitter
276 	Dan Weinreb 	Founder of Symbolics. Now at ITA.
277 	Robert Thau 	Early Apache developer. Started Bianca Troll
278 	Chrilly Donninger 	Author of the Hydra chess program.
279 	Matthew Ahrens 	Works on ZFS in kernel group at Sun
280 	Michael C. Schatz 	Author of a number of gene sequencing programs.
281 	Alex Russell 	Created Dojo Javascript library
282 	Richard Fateman 	Computer algebraist. Worked on MacSysma and Maxima
283 	Sam Stephenson 	Created Prototype Javascript library
284 	Naval Ravikanth 	Founder vast.com

7   John Carmack !!!!
idol

如果是Johnny R 我或許還能認識

284个，哇塞，太多了。

抬头抬得都翻过去了。

Johnny R 哪位？  

John Backus已经挂了，你让人家怎么去采访？去坟墓里挖出来吗？再说了这些不过是网友的投票而已。

不过很期待这本书地说。

再看看已经答应接受采访的：


真是令人神往，呵呵.

我们中国什么时候能出一位牛人位列其中啊？

audrey tang
唯一上榜的中国人，大家都知道是哪个吧。

嘿嘿，ray，大家都是马甲，何必这么吹毛求疵。这里面的家伙基本是活着并且愿意被采访的。stanley lippman竟然不在这个名单里，minix的作者也不在，龙书的作者aho也没有，都是响当当的人物啊。linus，松本XX都只能算前面几位的学生。。。毕竟这是来自影响力的名单，反正就是这些家伙，也可以值得仰视一下。

还有PYTHON HACKER Ka-Ping Yee啊!