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Programming Avant-Garde

Programmers and thinkers who inspire me.

Programmers know the giants who laid our technological foundations, such as Donald Knuth, John McCarthy, Niklaus Wirth, Edsger Dijkstra, Ken Iverson, Leslie Lamport, Guido van Rossum, Fabrice Bellard, and Linus Torvalds. He hosts an unofficial conference track, scribbling diagrams on a whiteboard for hours and enthusiastically explaining something to half a dozen nodding disciples. They remind me to seek a deeper meaning in my daily work and focus on things that make a difference instead of treading water.

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