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All-time leader49.0Tim Berners-Lee
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Linus Torvalds

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2nd44.5 · mom 11

Tim Berners-Lee

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1st49.0 · mom 13

Donald Knuth

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3rd33.0 · mom 12
Tim Berners-Lee leads this board.

All-time score 49.0, ahead of Linus Torvalds by 4.4.

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  1. 4thKen ThompsonDevelopers32.5
  2. 5thIvan SutherlandDevelopers29.8
  3. 6thBjarne StroustrupDevelopers29.7
  4. 7thBrian KernighanDevelopers29.1
  5. 8thAlan KayDevelopers28.9
  6. 9thLeslie LamportDevelopers28.5
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PlaceNameCountryCategoryAll-time
10th, risingSid MeierDevelopers · b. 1954CanadaCanadaDevelopers27.9mom 2511th, risingAlexey PajitnovDevelopers · b. 1955United StatesUnited StatesDevelopers27.8mom 1712th, risingAlfred AhoDevelopers · b. 1941CanadaCanadaDevelopers27.2mom 1713th, risingSam AltmanDevelopers · b. 1985United StatesUnited StatesDevelopers27.1mom 1914th, risingLeonard AdlemanDevelopers · b. 1945United StatesUnited StatesDevelopers26.8mom 1615th, fallingRob PikeDevelopers · b. 1956CanadaCanadaDevelopers26.2mom 216th, fallingBrendan EichDevelopers · b. 1961United StatesUnited StatesDevelopers26.0mom 117th, risingEugene KasperskyDevelopers · b. 1965Developers25.9mom 1518th, stableYukihiro MatsumotoDevelopers · b. 1965JapanJapanDevelopers25.7mom 219th, stableAnders HejlsbergDevelopers · b. 1960Developers25.3mom 420th, stableDan BricklinDevelopers · b. 1951United StatesUnited StatesDevelopers25.3mom 221st, fallingSteve RussellDevelopers · b. 1937United StatesUnited StatesDevelopers25.2mom 0

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Sid Meier holds 49th among developers

Canadian-American game programmer and designer

David Heinemeier Hansson holds 5th among developers

Programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails

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