[OT] Greatest language designers

[bachmeier]

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.