Who are Kent Beck, Dr Grace Hopper, and Dennis Ritchie?
Kent Beck is the author of Extreme Programming Explained and The Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns. Dr. Grace Murray Hopper was a remarkable woman who grandly rose to the challenges of programming the first computers. During her lifetime as a leader in the field of software development concepts, she contributed to the transition from primitive programming techniques to the use of sophisticated compilers. Dennis Ritchie created the C programming language.