Canals Quotes by Guy Steele

There's a story about how the program is organized, there's a story about the context in which the program is expected to operate. And…

— Guy Steele

The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation.

— Guy Steele

Some people prefer not to commingle the functional, lambda-calculus part of a language with the parts that do side effects. It seems they believe…

— Guy Steele

We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them…

— Guy Steele

If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases

— Guy Steele

A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag,…

— Guy Steele