this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2023
50 points (96.3% liked)

Programming

17444 readers
141 users here now

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Rules

  • Follow the programming.dev instance rules
  • Keep content related to programming in some way
  • If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities !webdev@programming.dev

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
snowe@programming.dev
Ategon@programming.dev
MaungaHikoi@lemmy.nz
50
40 years of Turbo Pascal (www.theregister.com)
submitted 11 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/programming@programming.dev
6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] atheken@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

I don’t have “heroes” per say, but Anders Hejlsberg is up there.

Generations of programmers have benefited from his work. His focus on ergonomics in C# made the language a total powerhouse.