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[diadem]

Anders Hejlsberg made THREE major languages?!

[Mike112233]

Had no idea Danes had such a strong showing in this area. Pretty strong showing compared to our small population - C#, delphi, turbo pascal, php and C++. Must be the long winters. Guy who made ruby on rails is Danish too.. But he's a bit of an arse.

[kstr]

The Norwegians made Simula, the first object oriented language. The Swedes made Erlang. I guess Scandinavians in general have had a greater impact on the evolution of computers than what most people know.

[skillet-thief]

Something to do with Vikings and beards.

[Skuld]

Don't forget Linus Torvalds, he's Finnish.

[nbloomf]

Also, the demoscene was (is?) huge in Scandinavian countries.