Programming language inventor or serial killer? (2003)
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- Bertrand Meyer: Initial designer of the Eiffel language and Design by Contract development method.
- Dorothea Puente: Murdered at least 9 tenants in her boarding house to claim their Social Security.
- John Christie: Killed 8 women in London; discovered when new tenants found a corpse behind wallpaper.
- Andrei Chikatilo: Known as the 'Butcher of Rostov,' murdered over 50 people, mostly children.
- John Mauchly: Co-designed the first electronic general-purpose computer and created Short Code.
- Gerald Jay Sussman: Invented the Scheme programming language and was involved in MIT’s AI research.
- Anatoly Onoprienko: Nicknamed 'The Terminator,' killed entire families and compared it to 'ripping up a duvet.'
- Jean E. Sammet: Played a key role in designing COBOL and developed FORMAC, an early computer algebra system.
- Guido van Rossum: Created the Python programming language in 1989, naming it after Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
- Randy Kraft: A programmer convicted of killing 16 young men; kept a 'scorecard' with 61 entries.