Important persons in your country.

[AlfredoLlaquet]

I was hoping for this opportunity to say that I use nex/nvi to feel the original experience. I like time traveling. It's good for the brain.

 

[blackbird9]

It is an unfortunate fact that often the people who are most recognised and remembered are the theoreticians, because their work never goes out of date; the maths and logic guys who come up with the core principles. Boolean logic is the same now as it was 200 years ago. But it's the engineers, who put those ideas into practice and make them real, who actually change the world.

 

[AlfredoLlaquet]

had some balls personal drive and energy

Heheheh... The Americans often use "cojones," which is a Spanish profanity, but they have adopted it as an accepted word. You can see them pronouncing it proudly on Fox News at the first opportunity.

 

[Beastie7]

I think we have to add Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, and probably a bunch of other bell labs guys, to that list too.

Absolutely; I completely agree. But it was the internet that allowed humans and systems to communicate on a global scale. For example, I'm able to chat with a relative from the opposite side of the planet due to the inventions from these two men. I can't thank them enough.

 

[rbranco]

The heart is big enough to accomodate more than one country, and mine accomodates the whole Iberian peninsula and Iberian America. So-called ¨Latin America" is an investion by some Frenchman to make us believe the French colonies had the same culture when it's not the case.

Anyway here it goes a partial list:

José Antonio Ramos Sucre - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Jorge Luis Borges - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Humberto Fernández-Morán - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Fernando Pessoa - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Julio Cortázar - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[blackbird9]

It's not my field, but the people who worked on RF electronics and satellite comms is another related area that has made astonishing progress in our own times. Even more incredible to me is the fact that we are able to have bidirectional communication with spacecraft as far away as places like pluto, or even further out in the case of the voyager missions. The real distances involved are unimaginably vast on any terrestrial scale. I don't know the names of the people who worked on this, but clearly they have made a major contribution.

A Brief History of Satellite Communications | Ground Control

Our guide the history of satellite communication technology, from the prescience of Arthur C. Clarke to nanosatellite constellations.

www.groundcontrol.com

Bernard Lovell and Jodrell Bank was one of the pioneers.

Bernard Lovell - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The History of Jodrell Bank | Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics

 

[blackbird9]

I just discovered this gem. For all Z80 lovers...

https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_History/Zilog_Z80/102658073.05.01.pdf

And an open-source design of a Z80 clone, since Zilog stopped making them. Amazing.

GitHub - rejunity/z80-open-silicon: Z80 open-source silicon clone. Goal is to become a silicon proven, pin compatible, open-source replacement for classic Z80.

Z80 open-source silicon clone. Goal is to become a silicon proven, pin compatible, open-source replacement for classic Z80. - rejunity/z80-open-silicon

github.com

 

[AlfredoLlaquet]

The most important person in the multiverse died recently. RIP Chuck Norris.

 

[SirDice]

the great Bram Moolenaar, another great dutchman

Indeed.

Another great Dutchman, in relation to computing, Guido van Rossum (creator of Python).

 

[blackbird9]

In that case, I have to give a shout out for the great Larry Wall. Inventor of Perl, patch, rn, perl6/rakudo or whatever they are calling it nowadays, and a bunch of other tools.
Another one whose software I use on an almost daily basis.

Larry Wall - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The man behind the Perl - Things you might not know about Larry Wall

 

[eternal_noob]

Another great Dutchman, in relation to computing

Edsger W. Dijkstra, the inventor of Dijkstra's algorithm.