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Earlier in the month we released a post called 30 Most Influential People In Web Design<\/strong> which showcased our favorite 30 web designers. Today we want to show off our favorite 30 programmers who have inspired and influenced so many people to become better programmers. Let us know who has inspired you to start and become a better programmer!<\/p>\n

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#1<\/span><\/p>\n
Tim Berners-Lee<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"timbernerslee<\/td>\n<\/td>\nTim Berners-Lee’s Websites<\/strong>
\nWikipedia Page – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tim_Berners-Lee
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\nAbout Tim Berners-Lee<\/strong>
\nTim is the Inventor of HTML (hyper text markup language) and the World Wide Web.
\n–<\/span>
\nIn 2007, he was ranked Joint First, alongside Albert Hofmann, in The Telegraph’s list of 100 greatest living geniuses.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#2<\/span><\/p>\n
Matt Mullenweg<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"mattmullenweg<\/td>\n<\/td>\nMatt Mullenweg’s Websites<\/strong>
\nMatt – http:\/\/ma.tt
\nWordpress – http:\/\/www.wordpress.com
\nWordpress Blog – http:\/\/matt.wordpress.com
\nWikipedia Page – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matt_Mullenweg
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout Matt Mullenweg<\/strong>
\nMatt is the founder and creator of the open source WordPress blogging platform.
\n–<\/span>
\nIn 2005, he founded the company Automattic, the company behind WordPress and Akismet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#3<\/span><\/p>\n
Larry Page<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"larrypage<\/td>\n<\/td>\nLarry Page’s Websites<\/strong>
\nGoogle – http:\/\/www.google.com
\nWikipedia Page – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Larry_Page
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout Larry Page<\/strong>
\nLarry Page is best known for the co-founder of Google, alongside Sergy Brin.
\n–<\/span>
\nHe is the 6th richest person in America, and the 27th richest billionaire worldwide according to Forbes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#4<\/span><\/p>\n
Sergey Brin<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"sergeybrin<\/td>\n<\/td>\nSergey Brin’s Websites<\/strong>
\nGoogle – http:\/\/www.google.com
\nWikipedia Page – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sergey_Brin
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout Sergey Brin<\/strong>
\nSergey was the co-founder of Google alongside Larry Page.
\n–<\/span>
\nSergey is ranked the 28th most richest person in the world according to the Forbes top 50 richest billionaires list 2009.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#5<\/span><\/p>\n
Linus Torvalds<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"linustorvalds<\/td>\n<\/td>\nLinus Torvalds Websites<\/strong>
\nLinux
\nWikipedia Page – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linus_Torvalds
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout Linus Torvalds<\/strong>
\nLinux is the creator of the extremely popular Linux open source operating system.
\n–<\/span>
\nToday, there are thousands of variations \/ distributions of Linux and many web servers run on it. Linus sure did create something ecstatic!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#6<\/span><\/p>\n
Dennis Ritchie<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"dennisritchie<\/td>\n<\/td>\nDennis Ritchie’s Websites<\/strong>
\n1 – http:\/\/cm.bell-labs.com\/who\/dmr\/
\nC Programming Language Book – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_C_Programming_Language_(book)
\nWikipedia Page – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dennis_Ritchie
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout Dennis Ritchie<\/strong>
\nDennis is best known for the creator of C and a huge key developer of the UNIX operating system.
\n–<\/span>
\nHe was born in 1941, and received the Turing Award in 1983 and the National Medal of Technology in 1998<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#7<\/span><\/p>\n
Brian Kernighan<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"briankernighan<\/td>\n<\/td>\nBrian Kernighan’s Websites<\/strong>
\nBell Labs – http:\/\/cm.bell-labs.com\/cm\/cs\/who\/bwk\/
\nC Programming Language Book – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_C_Programming_Language_(book)
\nWikipedia Page – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_Kernighan
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout Brian Kernighan<\/strong>
\nKernigham developed the UNIX operating system along side Ritchie and Thompson.
\n–<\/span>
\nBrian is the author of many UNIX programs, and is known as the coiner of the expression WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#8<\/span><\/p>\n
Ken Thompson<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"kenthompson<\/td>\n<\/td>\nKen Thompson’s Websites<\/strong>
\nBell Labs – http:\/\/plan9.bell-labs.com\/who\/ken\/
\nWikipedia Page – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ken_Thompson_(programmer)
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout Ken Thompson<\/strong>
\nKen is an American pioneer of computer science, and helped create the B programming language (which is now replaced by the C programming language).
\n–<\/span>
\nHe created UNIX alongside Kerighan and Ritchie, and helped create the Plan 9 operating systems distributed by Bell Labs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#9<\/span><\/p>\n
Rasmus Lerdorf<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"rasmuslerdorf<\/td>\n<\/td>\nRasmus Lerdorf’s Websites<\/strong>
\nBio – http:\/\/lerdorf.com\/bio.php
\nToys – http:\/\/toys.lerdorf.com
\nPHP – http:\/\/www.php.net
\nWikipedia – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rasmus_Lerdorf
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout Rasmus Lerdorf<\/strong>
\nRasmus Lerdorf is the creator of PHP. He authorised the first 2 versions of PHP, and then contributed in the development of later versions of PHP.
\n–<\/span>
\nPHP runs over 34% of websites online today, so Rasmus created something purely amazing.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#10<\/span><\/p>\n
Jason Fried<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"jasonfried<\/td>\n<\/td>\nJason Fried’s Websites<\/strong>
\n37 Signals – http:\/\/www.37signals.com
\nTwitter – http:\/\/twitter.com\/jasonfried
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout Jason Fried<\/strong>
\nJason Fried is the founder of 37 signals. 37 Signals have some amazing web apps out that thousands of people use daily. The 37 signals blog is very popular, and their job board gets hundreds of jobs posted.
\n–<\/span>
\nDid I forget to mention they also invented ruby on rails?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#11<\/span><\/p>\n
James Gosling<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"jamesgosling<\/td>\n<\/td>\nJames Gosling’s Websites<\/strong>
\nJames Gosling – http:\/\/www.jamesgosling.com
\nWikipedia Page – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Gosling
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout James Gosling<\/strong>
\nJames A. Gosling, is a famous software developer, best known as the father of the Java programming language.
\n–<\/span>
\nHe also has a personal website and a page over at the Apple Science website.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#12<\/span><\/p>\n
Brendan Eich<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"brendaneich<\/td>\n<\/td>\nBrendan Eich’s Websites<\/strong>
\nTwitter – http:\/\/twitter.com\/brendaneich
\nWikipedia Page – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brendan_Eich
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout Brendan Eich<\/strong>
\nBrendan Eich is a computer programmer and creator of the JavaScript programming language.
\n–<\/span>
\nHe is the Chief Technology Officer at the Mozilla Corporation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#13<\/span><\/p>\n
Carl Sassenrath<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"carlsassenrath<\/td>\n<\/td>\nCarl Sassenrath’s Websites<\/strong>
\nOfficial Site – http:\/\/www.sassenrath.com
\nWikipedia Page – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Sassenrath
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout Carl Sassenrath<\/strong>
\nCarl Sassenrath is an architect of operating systems and computer languages.
\n–<\/span>
\nHe brought multitasking to personal computers in 1985 with the creation of the Amiga Computer operating system kernel, and he is currently the designer of the REBOL computer language as well as the CTO of REBOL Technologies.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#14<\/span><\/p>\n
Bjarne Stroustrup<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"bjarnestroustrup<\/td>\n<\/td>\nBjarne Stroustrup’s Websites<\/strong>
\nATT Research – http:\/\/www.research.att.com\/~bs\/
\nWikipedia – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bjarne_Stroustrup
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout Bjarne Stroustrup<\/strong>
\nBjarne Stroustrup is a computer scientist most notable for developing the C++ programming language.
\n–<\/span>
\nHe is currently Professor and holder of the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science at the Texas A&M University.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#15<\/span><\/p>\n
Bram Cohen<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"bramcohen\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\nBram Cohen’s Websites<\/strong>
\nBram Cohen – http:\/\/bramcohen.com
\nWikipedia Page – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bram_Cohen
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout Bram Cohen<\/strong>
\nBram Cohen is an American computer programmer, best known as the author of the peer-to-peer (P2P) BitTorrent protocol.
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\nHe also created the first file sharing program to use the protocol, also known as BitTorrent.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#16<\/span><\/p>\n
Alan Cooper<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"alancooper\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\nAlan Cooper’s Websites<\/strong>
\nCooper – http:\/\/www.cooper.com\/alan\/father_of_vb.html
\nWikipedia Page – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Cooper
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout Alan Cooper<\/strong>
\nCooper is sometimes called “the father of Visual Basic”, although much of work on Visual Basic was done by Microsoft’s internal development group.
\n–<\/span>
\nCooper was the leading force behind VB 1.0 and pioneered the use of an IDE to create a GUI via wrapped calls to system routines in the API.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#17<\/span><\/p>\n
Larry Wall<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"larrywall\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\nLarry Wall’s Websites<\/strong>
\nPerl – http:\/\/www.perl.org
\nWall – http:\/\/www.wall.org\/~larry\/
\nWikipedia Page – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Larry_Wall
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout Larry Wall<\/strong>
\nLarry Wall s a programmer and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in 1987.
\n–<\/span>
\nHe is the co-author of Programming Perl, which is the definitive resource for Perl programmers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#18<\/span><\/p>\n
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"edsgerwdijkstra<\/td>\n<\/td>\nEdsger Wybe Dijkstra’s Websites<\/strong>
\nWikipedia Page – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edsger_Dijkstra
\nDijkstra’s Algorithm – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dijkstra%27s_algorithm
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout Edsger Wybe Dijkstra<\/strong>
\nEdsger Wybe Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist.
\n–<\/span>
\nHe received the 1972 Turing Award for fundamental contributions to developing programming languages, and was the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin from 1984 until 2000.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#19<\/span><\/p>\n
John Resig<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"johnresig<\/td>\n<\/td>\nJohn Resig’s Websites<\/strong>
\neJohn – http:\/\/ejohn.org
\njQuery – http:\/\/www.jquery.com
\nTwitter – http:\/\/twitter.com\/jeresig
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout John Resig<\/strong>
\nJohn is the creator of the very popular JavaScript library jQuery. He also is a JavaScript programmer, blogger and author. Oh and did i forget to mention he works for Mozilla?
\n–<\/span>
\nHe is currently working on his second book “Secrets of the JavaScript ninja”.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#20<\/span><\/p>\n
Guido van Rossum<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"guidovanrossum<\/td>\n<\/td>\nGuido van Rossum’s Websites<\/strong>
\nPython – http:\/\/python.org\/~guido\/
\nTwitter – http:\/\/twitter.com\/gvanrossum
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout Guido van Rossum<\/strong>
\nGuido is the author the the python programming language. He joined google back in 2005, and he loves the fact he gets to spend half the time there on python.
\n–<\/span>
\nIn June 2003, he was the finalist in the category IT Software (Individual) of the World Technology Network Awards.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#21<\/span><\/p>\n
Douglas Crockford<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"douglascrockford\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\nDouglas Crockford’s Websites<\/strong>
\nCrockford – http:\/\/www.crockford.com
\nWikipedia Page – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Douglas_Crockford
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout Douglas Crockford<\/strong>
\nDouglas Crockford is a senior JavaScript Architect at the most popular websites in the world, Yahoo! He is well known for his work in introducing JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).
\n–<\/span>
\nHe has also worked for companies such as Atari, Luciasfilm and Paramount.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#22<\/span><\/p>\n
Miguel de Icaza<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"migueldeIcaza<\/td>\n<\/td>\nMiguel de Icaza’s Websites<\/strong>
\nBlog – http:\/\/tirania.org\/blog\/
\nWikipedia Page – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miguel_de_Icaza
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout Miguel de Icaza<\/strong>
\nMiguel is a Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects.
\n–<\/span>
\nHe came from a family of scientists in which his father was a physicist and his mother a biologist. Miguel started to write free software in 1992.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#23<\/span><\/p>\n
Jeff Atwood<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"jeffatwood<\/td>\n<\/td>\nJeff Atwood’s Websites<\/strong>
\nCoding Horror – http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/
\nTwitter – http:\/\/twitter.com\/codinghorror
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout Jeff Atwood<\/strong>
\nJeff blogs about coding on CodingHorror. The blog is extremely popular, and has to date over 130,000 RSS Subscribers.
\n–<\/span>
\nThe blog features a very simplistic design, but obviously the content is extremely effective.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#24<\/span><\/p>\n
Kathy Sierra<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"kathysierra<\/td>\n<\/td>\nKathy Sierra’s Websites<\/strong>
\nTwitter – http:\/\/twitter.com\/kathysierra
\nWikipedia Page – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kathy_Sierra
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout Kathy Sierra<\/strong>
\nKathy is a programming instructor and game developer.
\n–<\/span>
\nShe co-created the Head first series of books to do with computing.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#25<\/span><\/p>\n
Scott Hanselman<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"scotthanselman\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\nScott Hanselman’s Websites<\/strong>
\nHanselman – http:\/\/www.hanselman.com
\nTwitter – http:\/\/twitter.com\/shanselman
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\nAbout Scott Hanselman<\/strong>
\nScott is the principal program manager at Microsoft’s developer division. He often speaks about software development at many Microsoft events.
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\nHe also publishes a blog and a very popular podcast around the technology lines.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#26<\/span><\/p>\n
Steven Frank<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"stevenfrank\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\nSteven Frank’s Websites<\/strong>
\nPanic – http:\/\/www.panic.com
\nSteven Frank – http:\/\/stevenf.tumblr.com
\nTwitter – http:\/\/twitter.com\/stevenf
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\nAbout Steven Frank<\/strong>
\nSteven Frank is the co-founder of the extremely popular mac software company, “Panic”.
\n–<\/span>
\nPanic make many amazing Mac applications. I would recommend buying more a less every one.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#27<\/span><\/p>\n
Ben Goodger<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"bengoodger\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\n Websites<\/strong>
\nBen Goodger Blog – http:\/\/www.bengoodger.com
\nWikipedia Page – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Goodger
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout <\/strong>
\nBen Goodger is a former employee of Netscape Communications Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation and former lead developer of the Firefox web browser.
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\nHe is currently working for Google Inc., where he leads the Google Chrome project.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#28<\/span><\/p>\n
Dion Almaer<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"dionalmaer\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\nDion Almaer’s Websites<\/strong>
\nAjaxian – http:\/\/ajaxian.com
\nAlmaer – http:\/\/almaer.com\/blog\/
\nVimeo Profile – http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/dion
\nTwitter – http:\/\/twitter.com\/dalmaer
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout Dion Almaer<\/strong>
\nDion is the co-founder of AjaxIan.com. AjaxIan teaches people about the popular javascript language, Ajax.
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\nThere are also many other writers at AjaxIan.com. There are hundreds of articles, and its the ultimate Ajax resource for developers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#29<\/span><\/p>\n
Craig Newmark<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"craignewmark\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\nCraig Newmark’s Websites<\/strong>
\nCraigslist – http:\/\/www.craigslist.org
\nWikipedia Page – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Craig_Newmark
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout Craig Newmark<\/strong>
\nCraig was born in 1952, and is the founder of the popular website Craigslist.com.
\n–<\/span>
\nCraig developed Craigslist from the ground up, and today is used worldwide by thousands of people. He is an inspiration to all.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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#30<\/span><\/p>\n
John D. Carmack<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"johncarmack\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\nJohn D. Carmack’s Websites<\/strong>
\nArmadillo Aerospace – http:\/\/www.armadilloaerospace.com
\nWikipedia Page – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Carmack
\n–<\/span>
\nAbout John D. Carmack<\/strong>
\nJohn D. Carmack is an American game programmer, and the co-founder of id Software.
\n–<\/span>
\nCarmack was the lead programmer of the id computer games Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and the sequels to Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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