• Abdulhaq (8/8) Aug 18 2022 Who are the greatest language designers, and why? :-)
• Jack (3/11) Aug 18 2022 gonna include John McCarthy right away. why include Stroustrop
• Walter Bright (2/4) Aug 19 2022 Their influence on the industry is enormous.
• matheus (4/8) Aug 19 2022 I think Dennis Ritchie is more, C is the pinnacle of the
• bauss (5/15) Aug 19 2022 Could probably sneak Ken Thompson in with Dennis as they both
• zjh (3/7) Aug 19 2022 A?B?C?D?...!
• bauss (2/10) Aug 18 2022 Eric Lippert
• Mike James (2/10) Aug 19 2022 Niklaus Wirth
• Sergey (4/12) Aug 19 2022 After the list finalisation this page could be enriched with some
• Jack Pope (8/13) Aug 19 2022 Chuck Moore should be included in that list... for his work on
• bachmeier (7/15) Aug 19 2022 Rich Hickey showed functional languages can be practical. Martin

Abdulhaq <alynch4048 gmail.com> writes:

Who are the greatest language designers, and why? :-)

Of course we have Walter here in our midst, other greats are of 
course Bjarne Stroustrop, Anders Hejlsberg and James Gosling. I 
think Anders has made the biggest impact in my coding life, and I 
continue to be really impressed with how he is managing large 
teams in developing top notch programming languages and 
environments.

Who else should be added to the list, and why?

Jack <jckj33 gmail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 18 August 2022 at 14:22:28 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
 Who are the greatest language designers, and why? :-)

 Of course we have Walter here in our midst, other greats are of 
 course Bjarne Stroustrop, Anders Hejlsberg and James Gosling. I 
 think Anders has made the biggest impact in my coding life, and 
 I continue to be really impressed with how he is managing large 
 teams in developing top notch programming languages and 
 environments.

 Who else should be added to the list, and why?

gonna include John McCarthy right away. why include Stroustrop 
but not Dennis Ritchie? i'm not big fan of C or C++ tho

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

On 8/18/2022 6:58 PM, Jack wrote:
 gonna include John McCarthy right away. why include Stroustrop but not Dennis 
 Ritchie? i'm not big fan of C or C++ tho

Their influence on the industry is enormous.

matheus <matheus gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 19 August 2022 at 11:38:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
 On 8/18/2022 6:58 PM, Jack wrote:
 gonna include John McCarthy right away. why include Stroustrop 
 but not Dennis Ritchie? i'm not big fan of C or C++ tho

 Their influence on the industry is enormous.

I think Dennis Ritchie is more, C is the pinnacle of the 
languages.

Matheus.

bauss <jacobbauss gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 19 August 2022 at 11:58:32 UTC, matheus wrote:
 On Friday, 19 August 2022 at 11:38:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
 On 8/18/2022 6:58 PM, Jack wrote:
 gonna include John McCarthy right away. why include 
 Stroustrop but not Dennis Ritchie? i'm not big fan of C or 
 C++ tho

 Their influence on the industry is enormous.

 I think Dennis Ritchie is more, C is the pinnacle of the 
 languages.

 Matheus.

Could probably sneak Ken Thompson in with Dennis as they both 
worked on B, which eventually Dennis took influence from when 
creating C, arguably a lot of the core ideas of C were rooted 
back in B.

zjh <fqbqrr 163.com> writes:

On Friday, 19 August 2022 at 12:06:09 UTC, bauss wrote:

 Could probably sneak Ken Thompson in with Dennis as they both 
 worked on B, which eventually Dennis took influence from when 
 creating C, arguably a lot of the core ideas of C were rooted 
 back in B.

A?B?C?D?...!
No,Z!

bauss <jacobbauss gmail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 18 August 2022 at 14:22:28 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
 Who are the greatest language designers, and why? :-)

 Of course we have Walter here in our midst, other greats are of 
 course Bjarne Stroustrop, Anders Hejlsberg and James Gosling. I 
 think Anders has made the biggest impact in my coding life, and 
 I continue to be really impressed with how he is managing large 
 teams in developing top notch programming languages and 
 environments.

 Who else should be added to the list, and why?

Eric Lippert

Mike James <foo bar.com> writes:

On Thursday, 18 August 2022 at 14:22:28 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
 Who are the greatest language designers, and why? :-)

 Of course we have Walter here in our midst, other greats are of 
 course Bjarne Stroustrop, Anders Hejlsberg and James Gosling. I 
 think Anders has made the biggest impact in my coding life, and 
 I continue to be really impressed with how he is managing large 
 teams in developing top notch programming languages and 
 environments.

 Who else should be added to the list, and why?

Niklaus Wirth

Sergey <kornburn yandex.ru> writes:

On Thursday, 18 August 2022 at 14:22:28 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
 Who are the greatest language designers, and why? :-)

 Of course we have Walter here in our midst, other greats are of 
 course Bjarne Stroustrop, Anders Hejlsberg and James Gosling. I 
 think Anders has made the biggest impact in my coding life, and 
 I continue to be really impressed with how he is managing large 
 teams in developing top notch programming languages and 
 environments.

 Who else should be added to the list, and why?

After the list finalisation this page could be enriched with some 
names :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_language_researchers

Jack Pope <zedlan invec.net> writes:

On Friday, 19 August 2022 at 12:13:09 UTC, Sergey wrote:
 On Thursday, 18 August 2022 at 14:22:28 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
 Who else should be added to the list, and why?

 After the list finalisation this page could be enriched with 
 some names :)
 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_language_researchers

Chuck Moore should be included in that list... for his work on 
Forth and related languages and chip architectures.

Forth is a programming language with many implementations.  This 
is because Forth can be implemented using relatively few 
functions in the host language, such as Assembly (or D). In that 
respect, Forth may be considered as much an 
implementation-paradigm as a programming language.

bachmeier <no spam.net> writes:

On Thursday, 18 August 2022 at 14:22:28 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
 Who are the greatest language designers, and why? :-)

 Of course we have Walter here in our midst, other greats are of 
 course Bjarne Stroustrop, Anders Hejlsberg and James Gosling. I 
 think Anders has made the biggest impact in my coding life, and 
 I continue to be really impressed with how he is managing large 
 teams in developing top notch programming languages and 
 environments.

 Who else should be added to the list, and why?

Rich Hickey showed functional languages can be practical. Martin 
Odersky combined functional and object oriented in a practical 
way. This is not to take away from others that worked with 
functional languages.

A lot of names could go on this list for demonstrating that 
language design doesn't matter for language popularity.