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Who are/were some of the most badass computer programmers?

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rashidacse:
    Steve Wozniak: He is a nerd of computer architecture design. He created first Apple computers and coded most of the first Apple software.
    Dave Cutler: He developed many operating systems including Windows NT kernel (still partly used by Windows).
    Richard Stallman: He programmed first versions of GCC and Emacs.
    Donald Knuth: Besides literally writing the book of programming, he created TeX (a typesetting system) which is still being used and he originally created this for writing better-looking TAOCP books.
    John Carmack: He wrote the game engine for Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein games only by himself. He also used a square root algorithm faster than respective machine instruction: http://www.beyond3d.com/content/...
    Anders Hejlsberg: He created Turbo Pascal, Delphi and C# languages.
    Bjarne Stroustrup: He implemented first version of C++, still Computer Science Chairman at Texas A&M University.
    Linus Torvalds: Creator of the Linux kernel, used by hundreds of millions of devices worldwide.
    Jeff Dean: See Quora: What are all the Jeff Dean facts?

ABM Nazmul Islam:
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