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Originally Posted by Lokean
Omni, allow me to retort...
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Hello, I'm John Warner Backus, arguably the most important figure in digital computer programming, ever. You have never heard of me, because I did my job and never made a fuss of myself.
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Presumably one of the two people involved in the development of the Backus-Naur-Form? I would expect that everybody involved in computer science in academics must have learned about the BNF, and not only if your area of expertise is theoretical computer science or compiler construction. It's the same like everybody should know about Von Neumann. There are obviously a lot of people that did important little things who you might never have heard about, though.