If you are measuring productivity, the authors of significantly popular programming languages are 10x via their programs enabling the users of the programming languages to develop software and the economic value that software provides.
The same can be said of tooling and major OS programmers.
The work of devs like Guido van Rossum created, Linus Torvalds, Ken Thompson David Moon ,Richard Stallman and many others is so multiplicative in terms of economic value output that a single order of magnitude doesn't come close to describing it. It's probably more like two or three orders of magnitude.
The same can be said of tooling and major OS programmers.
The work of devs like Guido van Rossum created, Linus Torvalds, Ken Thompson David Moon ,Richard Stallman and many others is so multiplicative in terms of economic value output that a single order of magnitude doesn't come close to describing it. It's probably more like two or three orders of magnitude.