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by robotnikman 1202 days ago
To give them some credit, they did create SAP, which is currently the largest non-American software company. It's just that Enterprise Resource Planning software is 'not sexy' so your average person probably has not heard of them, or they have and don't know what they do.
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Off the top of my head I can think of both Siemens and Telefunken who made computers going back to the 1950s. In the early 1970s, I took a grad course on the design of the ALGOL 68 compiler for the Telefunken TR440 system, taught by one of the compiler's designers at the Technical University of Munich.

I'd say that modern Germany has definitely produced significant contributions.