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Guy Steele

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Guy Lewis Steele Jr. is an American computer scientist who has played an important role in designing and documenting several computer programming languages and technical standards.

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Notable works: C, a reference manual

About Guy Steele

Guy Lewis Steele Jr. is an American computer scientist who has played an important role in designing and documenting several computer programming languages and technical standards.

Biography source: Wikipedia

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…

Block

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

Continuation

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

Believe

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

Drag

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

Computer

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

Bags

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