People

Some most influential (for me) programming names (and reasons for that):

• Brian Kernighan & Dennis Ritchie - "The C Programming Language"
• Bjarne Stroustrup - "The C++ Programming Language", famous hoax interview
• Andrew Koenig - Koenig lookup (ADL), Dr Dobbs blog
• Herb Sutter - Guru of the Week, publications
• Scott Meyers - books,
• Anderi Alexandrescu - books, Loki library,
• Bruce Eckel - "Thinking in C++" - everything has started there,
• Danny Kalev - C++ Reference Guide
• Grady Booch - the UML book,
• Tanenbaum & Torvalds - the debate,
• Gregory Andrews - FMPDP book,
• Ulrich Drepper - memory article, DSO article, other articles,
• Robert Love - linux programming books (system and kernel).