[OT] Greatest language designers

[Sergey]

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