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I create programs professionally and I know very few winner of the Turing Award by name. If someone said "who was the first native-English speaking Turing Award winner" I would not be able to answer unless I went through each winner and manually checked. I suspect quite few programmers in the world (and people on HN) are familiar enough with Turing Award winners that they can answer questions like that.

I would guess that people who work on building compilers and compiler optimization are more likely to know her name than programmers.