Guy L. Steele Jr.

...initially developed by Sun Microsystems as part of a DARPA-funded supercomputing initiative. One of the language designers is Guy L. Steele Jr., whose previous work includes Scheme , Common Lisp, and Java . A JVM compliant implementation...

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Guy Lewis Steele Jr., ( as in steel), also known as "The Great Quux" and GLS (), is an American computer scientist who has played an important role in designing and documenting several computer programming languages. Steele was born in...

In this article: Guy Lewis Steele Jr., Common Lisp, Sun Microsystems, Bill Joy, ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, Lisp, Java, American Academy of Arts, and *lisp

...Programming Language, Fourth Edition, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005, ISBN 0-321-34980-6 James Gosling, Bill Joy, Guy L. Steele Jr. , Gilad Bracha, The Java Language Specification, Third Edition, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005, ISBN...

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...backtracking, and various language structures for expressing problem-solving strategies. Sussman and his former student, Guy L. Steele Jr., invented the Scheme programming language in 1975. Sussman saw that artificial intelligence ideas can...

In this article: Gerald Jay Sussman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jack Wisdom, Free Software Foundation, Hal Abelson, Classical mechanics, American Association, Mit/gnu Scheme, and American Academy of Arts

...renamed "JARGON >" (the '>' suffix triggered versioning under ITS ), because a flurry of enhancements were made by Mark Crispin and Guy Steele , who generated multiple revisions. In the late 1970s, definitions were added by members of the...

In this article: Jargon File, MIT, Eric S. Raymond, Guy Steele, Raphael Finkel, Unix, and Lisp machines

...were, ultimately, not adopted. Chaired by Sandra Loosemore, this subcommittee created proposals for issues relating to Lisp compilation . Guy Steele acknowledged in the second edition of Common Lisp the Language the large contribution of...

In this article: X3J13, Common Lisp, Guy Steele, Lisp, Guy L. Steele, Jr., Ohio State University, and Kent Pitman

Although not successful as a project, NIL was important in a number of ways: firstly it brought together Jon L. White, Guy L. Steele, Jr. and Richard P. Gabriel, who were to later to go and define Common LISP ; and secondly, Jonathan Rees...

In this article: NIL, Lisp, MIT, Macsyma, Richard P. Gabriel, Common Lisp, S-1 Lisp, and Lisp Machine Lisp

...Professor Zhenjiang Hu at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo will collaborate with Dr. Guy Steele and his team at Sun Labs to develop a library based on skeletal parallel programming in...

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...able to vote with confidence against the tired majority when some of the smartest people in the world (like, oh, say, James Gosling and Guy Steele) try to introduce non-broken closures and real extensibility to the Java community. Those poor...

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...well, but enough to write lil sample applications in each one) and I found the Poignant Guide to be my favorite learner's guide, bar maybe Guy Steele's Scheme book and Ralph Griswold's (RIP) awesome SNOBOL and Icon books. I'm with the others...

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