…software come without academic credentials: consider Jobs, Gates and Zuckerberg, as well as some lesser-known-among-laypeople ones including Anders Hejlberg (creator of Turbo Pascal, chief architect of Delphi and later C#), John Carmack (lead programmer of Wolfenstein 3D, Doon, Quake and other id software games), David Karp ( Tumblr; and he doesn't even have a high school degree), and Jamie " jwz" Zawinski ( Netscape and XScreenSaver…
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