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Guy Steele comes to mind. He hasn't been as successful with the languages he co-created (most importantly scheme and to a lesser extent Common Lisp; Fortress was stillborn) but he's also been involved with the Javascript, C, Fortran (as a standards committee member) and Java (as a specification author). And he's been tremendously influential as a profound thinker on language design; I'm not sure anyone else understand so much about so many different languages and from quite different perspectives.

Hejlsberg probably is completely in a class of his own as a designer and architect/implementor of innovative spins on existing languages though.




>Hejlsberg probably is completely in a class of his own as a designer and architect/implementor of innovative spins on existing languages though.

Arhictect/implementor of IDE's (TurboPascal, Delphi, VS - all immensely influential).

If you haven't had the joy of programming in Delphi, you'll feel at home if you ever used VS/C#.. in Delphi 2.0 of the mid-90's.




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