Alonzo Church > John von Neumann
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rjspotter
on August 26, 2008
or lambda calculus > anything else
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John von Neumann contributed a LOT more than fetch-execute-store; his score is a lot higher than Church's.
P.S. I am also a Lisp fanboy but people need to stop making such a huge fucking deal out of the lambda calculus.
By "contributed a LOT more" I mean that he made large contributions to physics and fields of mathematics separate from computer science. He also was instrumental in building the atom bomb; whether or not this is a "contribution" as such is debatable, but it was still a remarkable intellectual achievement.
Alfred E Newman = mad