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I did some checking into name variants and found this:
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)
I know Quux well and have written several papers with him. He generally calls himself "Guy Steele" but (almost always) signs his papers and books "Guy L. Steele Jr." Note there is no comma between Steele and Jr. He is quite insistent on this as it is the legal spelling of his name. This page's name, I think, needs to reflect this. rpgpoet 6 January 2007
Perhaps the page should add "as well as GLS" to the "also known as" clause? 70.111.82.203 ( talk) 19:35, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
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
Which year was GLS born? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.65.121.239 ( talk • contribs) 7 May 2005
http://catalog.loc.gov/ says he was born in 1954. That matches 17 in 1972. Do we have any reason to doubt this? -- LA2 ( talk) 21:18, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
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)
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)
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)
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I did some checking into name variants and found this:
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)
I know Quux well and have written several papers with him. He generally calls himself "Guy Steele" but (almost always) signs his papers and books "Guy L. Steele Jr." Note there is no comma between Steele and Jr. He is quite insistent on this as it is the legal spelling of his name. This page's name, I think, needs to reflect this. rpgpoet 6 January 2007
Perhaps the page should add "as well as GLS" to the "also known as" clause? 70.111.82.203 ( talk) 19:35, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
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
Which year was GLS born? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.65.121.239 ( talk • contribs) 7 May 2005
http://catalog.loc.gov/ says he was born in 1954. That matches 17 in 1972. Do we have any reason to doubt this? -- LA2 ( talk) 21:18, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
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)
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)
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)