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I would not be surprised if Maurice Herlihy managed to get a Turing Award in the next few years.

I would be surprised if Stallman got a Turing Award however. I can't think of anything beyond his philosophy that makes him stand out in any technically innovative way.

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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

"Stallman has also developed a number of pieces of widely used software, including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU Debugger, and many tools in the GNU Coreutils."

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