4 ms·
(2003) My favorite thing about this thread is that Guy Steele is involved, and Guy Steele has a far better name than anybody else has ever had.
by sevensor 10y ago
(2003) My favorite thing about this thread is that Guy Steele is involved, and Guy Steele has a far better name than anybody else has ever had.
- apathy 10y agoI did work with a guy named Max Kalashnikov at Google. That was a pretty "rad" name, too.
- sevensor 10y agoI've also known a "Ulises Cervantes" and an "Aristotle Socrates," since we're trading awesome names :) Guy Steele is still my favorite, because I can just picture a mustachioed villain shouting "curse you Guy Steele!"
- apathy 10y agoThe visual here is awesome. Although all good programmers are antiheroes in my world, so I read that as a mustache twirling Guy Steele merrily evading the bumbling cops. Practically the whole point of Real Programming is to evade the limits of The Man. (Cf Mel: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html )
- dherman 10y agoGuy Steele's friend Olin Shivers [1] was the PhD advisor of Matt Might [2] and Lex Spoon [3]. I'm pretty confident the entire field of programming languages research is a Marvel comic. [1] http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/ http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/ [2] http://matt.might.net/ http://matt.might.net/ [3] https://www.lexspoon.org/ https://www.lexspoon.org/