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Quoting from the above link: To: "Guy Steele - Sun Microsystems Labs" From: "Anton van Straaten" Anton wrote this, not Guy.
by cwp 16y ago
Quoting from the above link:
To: "Guy Steele - Sun Microsystems Labs"
From: "Anton van Straaten"
Anton wrote this, not Guy.
- jimwise 16y agoQuite correct -- sorry for the confusion; I misremembered the quote's original attribution, and didn't catch my mistake when looking up the link. I suspect that in another few decades, GLS will, with Alan Perlis, Don Knuth, and perhaps Edsger Dijkstra, begin to take on the CS equivalent to the pop cultural role now played by Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, and Ben Franklin -- a figure to which half-remembered quotes or anecdotes are routinely ascribed. But that's no excuse for my own half-memory here. Thanks for the correction.