In terms of prestige, I think it goes something like this (from most to least prestiges)
0) Turing
1) Kunth/Pike/Ritchie/Englebert/Kay/Steele
2) People who wrote a language or operating system people actually use. Linus, Matz, Wall, van Rossum, Hejlsberg etc.
3) Theoretical computer scientists who have developed stuff people actually use
4) Low level specialists: security specialists, people who work on operating systems and/or performance specialists
5) People who developed a programming framework in wide use today, and have good taste (Cutting/Williamson/Rod Johnson/DHH)
6) Developers on apps used by huge numbers of people. Core Windows/Linux/Parts of Google/Parts of Facebook/Parts of Apple/some embedded systems
7) Theoretical computer scientists who've never developed anything used by anyone beside themselves
8) Developer at a software company or open source project with a good reputation for writing solid software (Google/some Apache projects/3rd party Webkit committer/some parts of Microsoft or Oracle)
9) Developer at a software company (ie, software is the company's primary focus)
10) Developer in some Financial Services companies
11) Enterprise developer/Web developer
12) VB6 developer/COBOL developer/Pick programmer
13) Developer in some proprietary language
14) Your work features on http://thedailywtf.com/
0) Turing
1) Kunth/Pike/Ritchie/Englebert/Kay/Steele
2) People who wrote a language or operating system people actually use. Linus, Matz, Wall, van Rossum, Hejlsberg etc.
3) Theoretical computer scientists who have developed stuff people actually use
4) Low level specialists: security specialists, people who work on operating systems and/or performance specialists
5) People who developed a programming framework in wide use today, and have good taste (Cutting/Williamson/Rod Johnson/DHH)
6) Developers on apps used by huge numbers of people. Core Windows/Linux/Parts of Google/Parts of Facebook/Parts of Apple/some embedded systems
7) Theoretical computer scientists who've never developed anything used by anyone beside themselves
8) Developer at a software company or open source project with a good reputation for writing solid software (Google/some Apache projects/3rd party Webkit committer/some parts of Microsoft or Oracle)
9) Developer at a software company (ie, software is the company's primary focus)
10) Developer in some Financial Services companies
11) Enterprise developer/Web developer
12) VB6 developer/COBOL developer/Pick programmer
13) Developer in some proprietary language
14) Your work features on http://thedailywtf.com/