Talk:Guy L. Steele, Jr.
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[edit] Name variants
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)
[edit] Involvement with Java
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))
- 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)
- 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))
[edit] Year of birth
Which year was GLS born? —The preceding unsigned comment was 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)
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- 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)
