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All-time leader33.0Donald Knuth
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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.

Chasing the podium
  1. 4thBrian KernighanDevelopers29.1
  2. 5thAlan KayDevelopers28.9
  3. 6thLeslie LamportDevelopers28.5
  4. 7thAlfred AhoDevelopers27.2
  5. 8thSteve RussellDevelopers25.2
  6. 9thPeter NortonDevelopers24.1
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PlaceNameCountryCategoryAll-time
10th, stableJean-Louis GasséeDevelopers · b. 1944FranceFranceDevelopers23.3mom 711th, stablePeter SamsonDevelopers · b. 1941United StatesUnited StatesDevelopers22.3mom 512th, fallingRon JeffriesDevelopers · b. 1939United StatesUnited StatesDevelopers22.1mom 013th, stableRichard GreenblattDevelopers · b. 1944United StatesUnited StatesDevelopers22.1mom 114th, fallingJeff SutherlandDevelopers · b. 1941United StatesUnited StatesDevelopers21.5mom 015th, stableAndrew S. TanenbaumDevelopers · b. 1944United StatesUnited StatesDevelopers19.0mom 1416th, stableAlexander GessenDevelopers · b. 1944Developers11.3mom 0

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Alfred Aho holds 85th among developers

Canadian computer scientist

Brian Kernighan holds 66th among developers

Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system

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