Definitely not. Guy Steele was involved in the specs for C, JS, Fortran, scheme, Common Lisp, and Java (among others). He gave a must-watch talk about Java cal

Definitely not. Guy Steele was involved in the specs for C, JS, Fortran, scheme, Common Lisp, and Java (among others). He gave a must-watch talk about Java called “Growing a Language”. https://youtu.be/_ahvzDzKdB0 https://youtu.be/_ahvzDzKdB0 He makes a great case that a language must be able to deal with future problems and ideas the original designers didn’t or couldn’t foresee. He seems to have been one of the voices pushing for stuff like generics so users could design libraries that would feel more native. And of course, I can’t mention him here without quoting his statement about Java: > We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp. A goal of Common Lisp was giving all the tools future programmers might need to create new tools. As a result, you’d be hard-pressed to come up with a language feature that hasn’t been ported to CL at some time.