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Just curious, who do you think are the other two?

I'd definitely put John Carmack on the list, probably as #1. And I think antirez should be somewhere up there as well

While antirez is a great programmer, I think his accomplishments are far from that of Dean or Carmack. There are many notable folks in his playing field.

I disagree. For example, homebrew isn't the best package manager. But its vast reach is a feat of its own.

Same with redis. Is it the best DB ever? Probably not. But it is definitely used quite a bit in the industry and a lot of people get acquainted with nosql databases and k/v stores through redis.

Engineering accomplishments without proper marketing, education and adoption are quite useless, for better or for worse

Anders Hejlsberg?

Yes, sure. Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C#, .NET (I think I read that he worked on it too), TypeScript. Maybe LINQ too.

Sanjay Ghemawat is another one.

Ghemawat should definitely be one. I sometimes wonder why Dean is teated on a wholly different level than Ghemawat. If you look at their works, almost all of them involve both. Probably someone with more knowledge can shed some light here.

I think I've heard "Jeff and Sanjay" as often as or more often than I've heard them regarded separately. Who invented protobuf? Jeff and Sanjay. Etc.

In my experience, hearing people treat "JeffAndSanjay" as a single entity is way more common within Google than it is industry-wide.

I'm not in Google, I hear of Jeff more often. I occasionally forget that Sanjay exists until reminded.

> I sometimes wonder why Dean is teated on a wholly different level than Ghemawat

Racism.

In part, at least subconsciously and since Jeff Dean is a more soundbyte-friendly name than Sanjay Ghemawat (Although "Ghemawat" is an awesome term for a unit of brainpower, akin to the "Wolfram" unit of ego.)

Also, Ghemawat is less of a public speaker and is not a manager

Sanjay makes fewer public appearances.

Jeff Dean memes

Inside Google, they're roughly the same. You used to refer to them together, they sat next to each other, worked on the same projects as you point out, roughly until Jeff started Brain. Outside of Google, Jeff is more popular probably because he gives all the talks and interviews (plus his legends...). I'm sure Sanjay has presented a few times, but I can't recall any, while Jeff has been everywhere and his slides are linked to all the time, e.g. the latency numbers all engineers should know.

Heh .. I think I was in the audience at LADIS the first time he presented that slide (or maybe the first time I had heard of it). Feel really privileged.

Another nominee is Doug Cutting

Bill Atkinson, maybe?

Not the OP,maybe Bill Joy and John Carmack.

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