I'd do less comparison and more recognition. Some of these are kind of old or from the past and I'm no expert and the list is very incomplete but:

Jean Ichbiah - big contributor to Ada

Alain Colmerauer - creator of Prolog

Jean-Marie Hullot - iCal, iSync, NeXTSTEP GUI builder, CTO of Applications at Apple in early 2000s

Philippe Kahn - founder of Borland, inventor of first camera-phone

Olivier Fourdan - creator of Xfce, big contributor to Wayland

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wavemode 8 months ago | parent | next [-]

Laurent Gomila - creator of SFML

Jean-Baptiste Kempf - creator of VLC

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fuzztester 8 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Some of the people at INRIA who created Caml and OCaml.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCaml

Bertrand Meyer, creator of Eiffel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_(programming_language...

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justin66 8 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> I'd do less comparison and more recognition.

Not to be overly snarky, but it's a good thing, since none of those people's output is comparable to FB's. The thought there might be another programmer like him was an interesting one to entertain...

	▲	keepamovin 8 months ago \| parent [-]
		For sure! But then the output set might be smaller and we need to recognize the good. Statically there’s probably others working in private, not publishing in open.

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_hyn3 8 months ago | parent | prev [-]

Willy Tarreau - creator of HA Proxy