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djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2024 10:29:57 JST djsumdog Ada Lovelace was not a programmer:
https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/technology/visionaries/ada-lovelace-original-and-visionary-but-no-programmer/
Grace Hopper invested COBOL, but she hardly made the first compiler. She coined the turn compiler; and she did some amazing things, but there's no reason to inflate her beyond those already big accomplishments.
Robert Williams was big in the era of text adventure games, but let's just admit it: all the Sierra games kinda sucked, and were just a means to sell hint books. The only really good games she wrote were Kings Quest VI and Phantasmagoria (just the first one; second one sucked)
I don't recognize the other names. Some of them may have been important, some exaggerated. I feel like from the few issues I've seen, I can't trust the rest of this list.
Why not just let great people stand on their own? Why is there this bizarre need to elevate the few who excel in something their in-group typically doesn't care about? You don't see "Greatest men of needle-point"- xianc78 likes this.