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I cannot believe that EWD is actually "ranked" number 18 between Larry Wall and John Resig....

btw, it is not a very good list for people interested in programming languages in general.

EDIT: grammar corrections...

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My thoughts exactly.

Somehow the creator of Wordpress is listed as #2. And Jason Fried/Jeff Atwood?

A better name would be "somewhat famous internet people, most of whom are programmers of some sort".

I agree - not a very good list at all. Jeff Atwood and no Alan Turing or Donald Knuth? Really?

There are a whole lot of "in-crowd" people there, but I generally miss real contributors to the area of programming languages. I particularly miss (in no particular order!) Alain Colmeraurer, John MacCarthy, Guy Steele, Alan Kay, Niklaus Wirth, Luca Cardelli, Barbara Liskov, David Parnas, Ole-Johann Dahl, Kristen Nygaard, Tony Hoare, etc. (I could go on and on, but really have no motivation to do so now...)

What is Jeff Atwood's contribution towards the web?

you mean computing?

Oh my god, I totally thought it was about the web. As a list for the web it kinda makes sense. As a list of general programming influence it's a travesty.

Giant swaths of blockquotes and randomly bolded setences.

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