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I am between him and pg.

edit: I never imagined John McCarthy writing fiction... http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/robotandbaby/robotandbaby...

My money's on Yegge:

"I used to have lot of open, long-standing concerns about the future of programming and productivity, but my sabbatical last year finally brought me some clojure."

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/07/blogger-finger.html

Oh in that case, I'd buy the book just for the foreword.

In that case maybe the foreword is half of the book.

Martin Odersky?

http://blog.fogus.me/2010/08/06/martinodersky-take5-tolist/

(credit to dpritchett: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1581486 )