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Momentum leader27.0Leslie Lamport
1970s×Developers×

Dennis M. Ritchie

Developers

2nd68.0 · mom 18

Leslie Lamport

Developers

1st57.8 · mom 27

Alfred Aho

Developers

3rd56.5 · mom 17
Leslie Lamport leads this board.

Momentum 27.0, the fastest climb on this board.

Chasing the podium
  1. 4thBrian KernighanDevelopers58.0
  2. 5thGary KildallDevelopers57.2
  3. 6thAndrew S. TanenbaumDevelopers57.9
  4. 7thDonald KnuthDevelopers68.0
  5. 8thAlan KayDevelopers57.7
  6. 9thJean-Louis GasséeDevelopers51.8
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PlaceNameCountryCategoryFame
10th, risingCharles GeschkeDevelopers · 1939-2021United StatesUnited StatesDevelopers53.9mom 511th, stablePeter SamsonDevelopers · b. 1941United StatesUnited StatesDevelopers51.0mom 512th, risingKen ThompsonDevelopers · b. 1943United StatesUnited StatesDevelopers59.0mom 513th, stableRaymond TomlinsonDevelopers · 1941-2016United StatesUnited StatesDevelopers56.5mom 414th, stableIvan SutherlandDevelopers · b. 1938United StatesUnited StatesDevelopers56.0mom 315th, stableGladys del Estal FerreñoDevelopers · 1956-1979SpainSpainDevelopers45.4mom 216th, stableRichard GreenblattDevelopers · b. 1944United StatesUnited StatesDevelopers47.1mom 117th, stablePeter NortonDevelopers · b. 1943United StatesUnited StatesDevelopers51.6mom 118th, fallingJef RaskinDevelopers · 1943-2005United StatesUnited StatesDevelopers53.9mom 019th, fallingSteve RussellDevelopers · b. 1937United StatesUnited StatesDevelopers49.3mom 020th, fallingJeff SutherlandDevelopers · b. 1941United StatesUnited StatesDevelopers45.7mom 021st, fallingAndrew FluegelmanDevelopers · 1943-1985United StatesUnited StatesDevelopers44.1mom 0

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Leslie Lamport holds 69th among developers

American computer scientist

Dennis M. Ritchie holds 22nd among developers

American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language

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