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All-time leader33.0Donald KnuthThe most famous of the
Ken Thompson
Developers
2nd32.5 · mom 5
Donald Knuth
Developers
1st33.0 · mom 12
Ivan Sutherland
Developers
3rd29.7 · mom 3
Donald Knuth leads this board.
All-time score 33.0, ahead of Ken Thompson by 0.5.
The rest of the board15
PlaceNameCountryCategoryAll-time
10th, risingAlfred Aho
CanadaDevelopers27.2mom 1711th, rising
Dennis M. Ritchie
United StatesDevelopers26.9mom 1812th, falling
Jef RaskinUnited StatesDevelopers26.2mom 013th, falling
Steve RussellUnited StatesDevelopers25.2mom 014th, stablePeter NortonUnited StatesDevelopers24.1mom 115th, stable
Jean-Louis Gassée
FranceDevelopers23.3mom 716th, stablePeter SamsonUnited StatesDevelopers22.3mom 517th, falling
Ron JeffriesUnited StatesDevelopers22.1mom 018th, stable
Richard GreenblattUnited StatesDevelopers22.1mom 119th, falling
Jeff SutherlandUnited StatesDevelopers21.5mom 020th, fallingAndrew FluegelmanUnited StatesDevelopers20.6mom 021st, stable
Gladys del Estal Ferreño
SpainDevelopers19.8mom 2What moved this board
See allDennis M. Ritchie holds 22nd among developers
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
Alfred Aho holds 85th among developers
Canadian computer scientist
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