Guy Steele Quotes & Sayings

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. — Guy Steele

The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation. — Guy Steele

If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases — Guy Steele

There's a story about how the program is organized, there's a story about the context in which the program is expected to operate. And one would hope that there will be something about the program, whether it's block comments at the start of each routine or an overview document that comes separately or just choices of variable names that will somehow convey those stories to you. — Guy Steele