Who is the best computer programmer of all times?

Question

My personal favorite is Fabrice Bellard.

chairmansteve · Accepted Answer

D. Richard Hipp is up there for me.I love the minimalism of his programs, SQLLite and Fossil. Also involved in Tcl, my favourite language.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._Richard_Hipp

rstagi · Answer

"best" is a relative term, but in terms of technology we all use every day I would say either Linus Torvalds or Jeff Dean are up there among the best for sure

jleyank · Answer

You'd have to come up with the criteria for "best" but as an old hacker, "from MIT or Bell Labs" comes to mind as where to look. Maybe some of their spinoffs, but those sites did amazing things with basically nothing.

bdangubic · Answer

Mike Evanston

dlcarrier · Answer

That's far too subjective of a question to have a specific answer, but obviously it's Melvin Kaye: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html

__patchbit__ · Answer

RMS

genxy · Answer

You will never know, for all they do is delete and refactor.

jerhewet · Answer

Fabrice Bellard.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard

LocalH · Answer

Any of the top coders from the major demoscenes.