I think it is also important to remember something else here. Guy Steele certainly had significant influence on Java, but he was far from the final decision ma

I think it is also important to remember something else here. Guy Steele certainly had significant influence on Java, but he was far from the final decision maker. I'm sure there are tons of things he would have wished Java to have (or not have) but they weren't his call to make. If anything people should be grateful that he was involved at all, since Java would probably have been a lot worse off it he hadn't been. And to top it off, Guy seems to have that rare combination of being simultaneously super smart and reasonably humble. I have never read anything he's written or listened to any talk he's given where I was not greatly impressed by him and what he had to say. I don't think I've ever seen him comment on Hacker News. I wish we could get him to comment regularly here, as his knowledge and insight would be of great value.