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Erich Gamma

1961 - Today

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Erich Gamma is a Swiss computer scientist and one of the four co-authors (referred to as "Gang of Four") of the software engineering textbook, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Gamma, along with Kent Beck, co-wrote the JUnit software testing framework which helped create Test-Driven Development and influenced the whole software industry. He was the development team lead of the Eclipse platform's Java Development Tools (JDT), and worked on the IBM Rational Jazz project. In 2011 he joined the Microsoft Visual Studio team and leads a development lab in Zürich, Switzerland that has developed the "Monaco" suite of components for browser-based development, found in products such as Azure DevOps Services (formerly Visual Studio Team Services and Visual Studio Online), Visual Studio Code, Azure Mobile Services, Azure Web Sites, and the Office 365 Development tools. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erich Gamma is the 196th most popular computer scientist (down from 192nd in 2019), the 706th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 699th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Erich Gamma ranks 196 out of 245. Before him are Sugata Mitra, Gary McKinnon, Maria Klawe, Brian Acton, Ralph Merkle, and Gilles Brassard. After him are Peter Norvig, Jon Hall, Christian Engström, Fei-Fei Li, Ilya Sutskever, and Andrew Morton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Erich Gamma ranks 584. Before him are Charo, Armando Martínez, Serena Scott Thomas, Juan Echanove, Sharon Lawrence, and Kim Leine. After him are Ersun Yanal, Israel Tsvaygenbaum, Gabi Zange, Vyacheslav Ivanenko, Daniela Santanchè, and Wolfram Wuttke.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Erich Gamma ranks 706 out of 1,015. Before him are Paul Hinder (1942), André Egli (1958), DJ Antoine (1975), Bob Lutz (1932), Belinda Bencic (1997), and Marco Streller (1981). After him are Baran bo Odar (1978), Erland Herkenrath (1912), Roman Bürki (1990), Dani Levy (1957), Taulant Xhaka (1991), and Paul Accola (1967).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Switzerland

Among computer scientists born in Switzerland, Erich Gamma ranks 2. Before him are Niklaus Wirth (1934). After him are Martin Odersky (1958).

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