Linus, RMS, Guido, and others. I can think of so many other names.
You know what, even John Resig's jQuery software is served by millions of servers, running in billions of web pages every day.
This all "THE BEST" thing, is somehow pointless IMO.
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It really does seem a bit pointless. Why not just say "djb writes great, beautiful code - some of the best I have ever seen" and leave it at that?
I agree, but aaronsw must come at an issue as a raging partisan. I know that in economics, philosophy, politics, and apparently best programmer ever!!!, he always comes at the issue with a deeply contentious point of view from an entrenched idealogical camp.
It's kind of a shame because of the the advantages of being young is being able to approach a field without having to take sides. Meaningful dialog and inquiry void of motivated reasoning are beautiful things. Unfortunately, some people need an argument.
the advantages of being young is being able to approach a field without having to take sides.
You must be describing your youth, not mine! My experience with youth is that it was the period of my life in which the whites were blindingly white, the blacks impossibly back, and there were no colours or shades of grey to distract us from our belief that we knew exactly what was right and what was wrong.
And thank goodness, because a belief in right and wrong can propel you to change the world while you have the energy to carry it through :-)
It's a far point. I was referring to youth in the twenties sense. Of course younger than that you are quite right. Immaturity is a bitch.
Unfortunately, certitude can also lead people to be fierce advocates of the status quo.
Heheh. Spoken like a person in their 20s
I have to agree with you on JQuery. It runs on multiple browsers too and performs exceptionally well. It's gotta be one of my all time favorite pieces of software.
It's hard to overstate how great jQuery is. I'm always surprised at how easy it makes things. I remember the bad old days, spending hours researching the different ways to reference dom objects, trying to find a method that worked in more than one browser. With jQuery, you really can just code it once, and it works everywhere.
No offense, but the same can be said of Dojo, Prototype, Mootools, etc.
They all are rock solid cross-browser JS toolkits.
Only two others would equal DJB in terms of having more than one major well known app (a mail server and a DNS server). In my experience, I wouldn't say djbdns is particularly widely deployed...
Linus Torvalds
* The Linux Kernel
* git
Fabrice Bellard
* FFMpeg (if you've done anything with video in the last 10 years, you've used this)
* QEmu (basis for QEmu emulator and userspace portion of KVM VM). Ubuntu's open EC2-API compatible elastic cloud app uses this, as does Red Hat Advanced Platform.
If there are any others, let me know. Mongrel's pretty popular, if Lamson does the same maybe we could add Zed.
jQuery gives me goosebumps whenever I get a chance to work with it.
You can turn that off:
$.fn.defaults({goosebumps: false});