[OT] Greatest language designers

[bauss]

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.