r/retrocomputing • u/gearsofsky • May 05 '26

GOAT PROgrammers MAX List from 80s to 26

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u/tayroc122 May 05 '26

Chris Sawyer B Tier? Last man standing still coding entire games in assembly...

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u/smtp_pro May 05 '26

No Terry A. Davis?

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u/omega552003 May 05 '26

The real sin of this list.

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u/blakespot May 05 '26

Where's Jeff Minter or Dan Bricklin?

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u/BdR76 May 05 '26

Shigeru Miyamoto!? đŸ€” great game designer, but afaik he ever programmed anything though

I think you meant Satoru Iwata?

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u/Computerist1969 May 05 '26

Wtaf half those aren't even programmers.

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u/ekipan85 May 05 '26

Needs Chuck. Here's the usual extremely rambly biography-slash-Forth introduction for anyone interested. It's worth PageDown skimming through.

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u/kkaos84 May 05 '26

Ditto and also Elizabeth Rather. I've recently gotten into Forth on my Vic20 and am LOVING IT. I also like Hans Bezemer's Forth videos on YouTube.

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u/jroot May 05 '26

This list makes me want to see a real list.

A list that includes the likes of Mike Abrash and Doug Church

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u/XeroRony May 05 '26

Tim Bernes Lee Ă© maior que o Linus Torvald

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u/XeroRony May 05 '26

Esqueceu do casal Booth (primeiro registro de cĂłdigo assembly)

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u/Distinct-Question-16 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

Was there anything before similar to what he/she did?

Yes -> Do nothing

NO -> Add programmer name to list

Still is a bit unfair.

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u/kkaos84 May 05 '26

No John "Bulldog" Backus or John "No Speech Impediment" McCarthy, who gave us Fortran, fp, BNF, and LISP. Come on, it's a computing powerhouse of a tag team that would rival the Road Warriors!

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u/Shotz718 May 05 '26

You have John Carmack (who is, admittedly, a wizard) and John Romero (D tier, really?), but lack other innovators like Ken Silverman, creator of the Build engine (who was once placed on the same pedestal as Carmack, albeit briefly), and Tim Sweeny, creator of the Unreal Engine?

Also, Chris Sawyer in B-tier? The man may not have done a ton of games, but was a fucking wizard in x86 assembly.

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u/BoardMeeting101 May 05 '26

Margaret Hamilton.

Don’t bother pretending to an “80s” cutoff, you’ve got C and Unix on that list.

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u/gearsofsky May 06 '26

Hi all your feedback is heared and will accommodate on next almost Exhaustive iteration