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Who's the greatest living programmer?
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>>107550362
Most certainly none of the above. The best programmer, you'll never have heard of him. You are looking at salesmen.
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>>107550362
2 of them spend 20 millions of them dollaridoos in useless stuff such as giving 12 free games every december, remastering a game no one cares about and showing their new shit game on TGA.
The other one wastes billions of someone else's money trying to improve technology.

I made my choice.
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>>107550362
Me
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>>107550362
AI
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Ken Thompson.
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>>107552366
Checked
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>>107550362
systemd/linux torvalds
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>>107552895
I miss the early 2010s
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>>107550362
Drew Devault, hands down.
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>>107553159
lol
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>>107553169
??
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>>107550362
Carmack made the most innovations, Tim Sweeney had the most successful engine. The guy in the middle doesn't stand out in any way.
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>>107552366
I feel like he definitely was. I'm not sure if he ever would have consider himself to be. Not sure if he still is.
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>>107550362
carmack cause i'm a gaymer
guy pushed for latency reduction between input and output, the only kind of gains that matter in cybernetic systems
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>>107550362
One of those people developing AI, that the companies keep fighting over. There's some dozen of them probably and you can't get education for it yet, so they're mostly self taught too. They just don't have huge internet presence.
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>>107550362
Tim Fortnite because those gay ass capshit uses his game engine for the movies.
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>>107550449
no, me.
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>>107550362
>who
>lmao
>yeah Carmack's at least a very good programmer



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