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Here are the 12 most influential programmers working today

Matt WeinbergerJul 11, 2015, 00:24 IST

The apps and games you use every day don't exist in a vacuum - someone, somewhere, wrote the code.

That also goes for the underlying platforms and hardware that those apps run on. And the web. And the entire Internet itself.

Even the programming languages that people use to build this stuff first had to be written by somebody else.

So who's at the top of the programming pyramid?