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Programming language inventor or serial killer? (2003)

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1. Bertrand Meyer

Initial designer of the Eiffel language and Design by Contract development method. Currently a Professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan

2. Dorothea Puente

The “Death House Landlady” ran a Sacramento boarding house in the ’80s and murdered at least 9 tenants before claiming their Social Security

3. John Christie

Killed 8 women at 10 Rillington Place, London. Arrested after new tenants tracing an unpleasant odour peeled off the kitchen wallpaper to reveal a corpse

4. Andrei Chikatilo

The “Butcher of Rostov” murdered and mutilated more than 50 people, mostly small children. He was told as a child that villagers had eaten his brother

5. John Mauchly

Co-designed the first electronic general-purpose computer and created Short Code, the first programming language actually used on a computer

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