I know there can only be 10, but I thought there was at least one
notable omission on the programming languages: Ada (and Ada95) -
named for Countess Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, who
programmed Charles Babbage's analytical engine and thus was
considered the world's first programmer. Ada95 (the object-oriented
version of Ada) was the first programming language to become
standardized (ANSI and ISO) *before* being released for public use.
What a novel concept! Ada is also a strongly typed language and
thus ideal for software engineering. Had it not been for its "DoD
only" stigma, it could have become the de facto standard for
programming. Oh well...
Jeremy R.