Who is the best programmer you know?

https://bellard.org/

Someone that has no real internet presence, but here are the things I've tried to mimic from him:

* immense domain knowledge

* accounts for operations (in a myriad of ways)

* code comments are succinct and easy to read

* clever, but not too clever

* uses common tooling

* is a better architect than others with that job title

* communicates well and is a genuinely nice guy

Ward Christensen did some amazing things in the 1970 & 80s.

There was once a shortest useful program contest, his entry was 2 bytes long[1]

When he lost the source to a program he wrote, he created ReSource, a disassembler[2] that got forked a few times over and eventually gave us the NSA's GHIDRA

He was stuck at home because of a snow storm, and with Randy Suess, created one of the first BBS systems, and open sourced it.[3]

[1] https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/underground/BBSes/CBBS/199...

[2] https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2019-January/...

[3] http://vintagecomputer.net/cisc367/byte%20nov%201978%20compu...

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

Terry Davis of course what question is this.

Augusta Ada Lovelace

Martin Thompson

Thanks!