Guy Steele
Från Unix.se, den fria unixresursen.
Guy Steele utvecklade tillsammans med Gerald Sussman programspråket Scheme. Han är författare av boken Common Lisp the Language (http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ai-repository/ai/html/cltl/cltl2.html) och jobbar numera på Sun Microsystems med bl.a. specifikationen av Java. Steele skrev den första porten av TeX (till ITS) 1978. Intressen utanför datorvärlden inkluderar körsång, skådespel och schack.
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Citat
- "If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases."
- "We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp."
- "A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal-- Panama!"
- "The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation."
- "If the programmer can simulate a construct faster than a compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly."
