Talk:Guy L. Steele Jr.

message: I did some checking into name variants and found this:
* Guy Steele - 11,700
* Guy Steele Jr. - 364
* Guy L. Steele - 13,900 - 7,750 [next] = 6,150
* Guy L. Steele Jr. - 7,750.
* Guy Lewis Steele - 1,290
so technically I guess we ought to use "Guy Steele" but I prefer this name, and I think he does too. Noel 20:48, 14 Sep 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I've moved the page so that it does not have the extraneous comma. --Karnesky 14:29, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Name variants

message: I don't think it's true that Seele was asked "early on" to join Joy and
the Java thing.  I no longer have the ref, but I remember reading him
saying he was brought in at the last minute just to be an editor and
document the final spec.  He certainly had no design input in Java
(more's the pity).  Somebody check this and refactor the page?  --AlainPicard
: this is known; but I don't know the exact details. 
:: I attended a talk Guy gave to the Brandeis University CS Department around 1995 about Java. My recollection is that Java already existed when he was brought in, and that he was there to help formalize the language or act as an evangelist for it. --Zippy 04:17, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That agrees with my fuzzy memory of something I read at the time. The very first edition of the Java language spec book showed GLS's influence: lots of jokes, pop culture references and so on in the index, but not in the body of the book. Sadly, Sun took all the jokes out. (Common Lisp: the Language, second edition is famous for having an index which is longer than the whole "R5RS" spec, but it's also a lot more entertaining!) Cheers, CWC(talk) 08:44, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Involvement with Java

message: Which year was GLS born? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.65.121.239 (talk • contribs) 7 May 2005
:See this interesting article, which suggests he was 17 in mid-1972. CWC(talk) 08:44, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article says he graduated from Boston Technical High School in 1972. In the US, High schools run to the 12th grade, so he entered the first grade in 1972-12 = 1960. Typically, in the US at that time-frame, one started grade school when six years of age. That should make his birthday somewhere in 1960-6 = 1954. So, this is 2006. His age is about 2006-1954 = 52 years of age +/- a year. -- LymanSchool 20:35, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

text: http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9905/05/1955.idg/ says 1955. — Miym (talk) 00:57, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Year of birth

message: Shouldn't the page state explicitly that Guy Steele
was the primary author of the initial Common Lisp
specification?
(Just saying that he was the author of CLtL does not
make that clear to one who doesn't know.)
70.111.170.104 (talk) 19:56, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Contribution to Common Lisp more explicit?

message: I just started a small edit to address the good point made by user:70.111.170.104 above ... but I ended up revising and expanding the whole article instead. I'm sure my poorly-planned edit is far from perfect, so please improve my work (particularly the headings).
(BTW, I own copies of the first and third editions of C: A Reference Manual.) Cheers, CWC 14:25, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It reads well, but it's completely unreferenced. -- Mikeblas (talk) 14:33, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point. My main sources were his bio at Sun (a legit RS) and the forewords to (my own copies of) some of the books he [co]wrote. I've moved the link to his bio at Sun from "External links" to "References" as an interim measure towards proper referencing.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chris Chittleborough (talk • contribs) 08:16, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unintended rewrite 

message: Is it true he used to be a supporter of the League for Programming Freedom but is a patent holder.  What patents does he hold? --Ashawley (talk) 14:53, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Software patents