Happy Birthday to Larry Wall ...

dalecosp

Without which we would not have Perl ... and therefore might not have PHP? :p

(And actually, maybe not entirely true, as PHP history makes little mention of Perl ) ...

cluelessPHP

Had never heard of him until now, but happy birthday to the guy 😃

dalecosp

cluelessPHP;11057645 wrote:
Had never heard of him until now, but happy birthday to the guy 😃

Well, the point is to learn something every day, right?

How about?

Linus Torvalds
Guido van Rossum
Bjarne Stroustrup
Jordan Hubbard
Bill Joy
Paul Hudak
Dennis Ritchie

And, of course, Rasmus Lerdorf ...

cluelessPHP

Dennis Ritchie was the only name to spring out at me. Rasmus Lerdorf I knew, oh I know about Ada Lovelace and her father, ironically I only know about her father because of her :rolleyes:

I know of:

Scott Hanselman
Angelina Fabbro

Oh and..
Matt Zandstra
Alex Garrett

one last edit forgot

Ryan Benedetti
Ronan Cranley

NogDog

And, of course, Alan Turing. 😉

Derokorian

NogDog;11057655 wrote:
And, of course, Alan Turing. 😉

And now this thread is "Turing Complete"

cluelessPHP

NogDog;11057655 wrote:
And, of course, Alan Turing. 😉

Oh yeah, I watched Enigma film

Always thought it would be interesting to make my own language... said no one just learning code ever

dalecosp

Derokorian;11057657 wrote:
And now this thread is "Turing Complete"

😃 Nice one, D!

cluelessPHP;11057659 wrote:
Oh yeah, I watched Enigma film

Always thought it would be interesting to make my own language... said no one just learning code ever

I'd say that's probably right, although we do see a lot of posts where it kind of LOOKS like someone's got their own computing(*) language. :rolleyes:

*Unintended xenophobic statement narrowly avoided

dalecosp

cluelessPHP;11057653 wrote:
Dennis Ritchie was the only name to spring out at me. Rasmus Lerdorf I knew, oh I know about Ada Lovelace and her father, ironically I only know about her father because of her :rolleyes:

Oh, sweet Ada. What about Grace Hopper?

cluelessPHP

dalecosp;11057669 wrote:
Oh, sweet Ada. What about Grace Hopper?

0072 my default mode according to Nogdog and laserlight :p