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programming languages

3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.

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Boris Cherny

Software engineer and author of Programming TypeScript — the definitive practical guide to TypeScript — known for clear technical writing that made TypeScript accessible to JavaScript developers at scale.

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Gary Kildall

American computer scientist and inventor of CP/M — the dominant microcomputer operating system before DOS — who famously missed or avoided the meeting with IBM that Microsoft attended instead, costing him the PC era.

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Paul Graham

British-American computer scientist, essayist, and co-founder of Y Combinator — the world's most influential startup accelerator — whose essays on startups, technology, and thinking are widely read across the technology industry.

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