A List of Real Programmers
in the opinion of Alex Burrell

Game Programmers

• Jonathan Blow
• John Carmack
• Casey Muratori - <Link to YT channel>
• Mike Acton

Operating System Authors

• Andrew S. Tanenbaum
• Bryan Cantrill
• Dennis Ritchie
• Fred Brooks
• Greg Kroah-Hartman
• Jeff Bonwick
• Larry McVoy
• Ken Thompson
• Linus Torvalds
• Terry Davis
• Van Jacobson

Misc.

• Chris Domas
• Dave Plummer - <Link to YT channel>
• Fabrice Ballard
• Jim Gray
• Lars Bak
• Melvin Kaye
• Richard Stallman
• Seymour Cray
• Charles H. Moore