A programmer is a person who can create and modify computer programs. No matter what type of programmer one may be, everyone contributes something to society, no matter how trivial. There are those few who have contributed beyond what a single programmer usually does in an entire lifetime.
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Top 10 Greatest Programmers In The World History
We had collected information about World’s best programmers of all time and written about faces behind popular programming languages, and all seemed geeks of their times. So how much money do programmers make? Or to be more specific, how much money top programmers make? The ones who created programming languages or used it to achieve phenomenal success (like Google). Here is a list of 10 persons who made billions of dollars in the Programming and Computer world. Here is the list of top 10 programmers in the world of all time:
Dennis Ritchie
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist who “helped shape the digital era”. He created the C programming language and with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system. Ritchie and Thompson received the Turing Award from the ACM in 1983, the Hamming Medal from the IEEE in 1990 and the National Medal of Technology from President Clinton in 1999. Ritchie was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007.

Bjarne Stroustrup
James Gosling

James-Gosling
Linus Torvalds

Anders Hejlsberg

Tim Berners-Lee

Brian Kernighan

Ken Thompson

Ken Thompson
Guido van Rossum

Donald Kuth
