Talk:Gerald Jay Sussman

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[edit] Sussman rocks

Gerry Sussman totally rocks! Anyone at MIT--make sure you take one of his classes while you're here. You won't regret it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 18.250.0.80 (talk) 3:34, 13 Sept 2005 (UTC)

I disagree. He's an arrogant jerk, who likes to throw chalk at his students when he gets upset. completely inappropriate behavior for a Professor. By my junior year, every time I walked into a class and saw him, I turned around and walked out. Maxvip (talk) 13:05, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Steele's poem on Sussman

Guy Steele writes[1]:

"Sussman built a hacker for a Ph.D. thesis. When will someone for a thesis build a hacker that builds a hacker?"

Quaxity quuxity,

Gerald J. Sussman made

HACKER so famous for

Loopholes it plugs.

Armed with its knowledge of

Entomological

Manifestations, it

Ferrets out bugs.

What's Steele talking about here? -- Gwern (contribs) 04:46, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Obvious to me. Perhaps you should go read the thesis? A paragraph on gjs' PhD thesis would be a worthwhile add to this biography. It was and remains groundbreaking work. Lentower 20:46, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GNU?

Why is he in category GNU people? The biography here does not explain this! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.84.164.86 (talk) 11:37, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

He's been an active supporter of rms and GNU, as well as a contributor, since before the beginning and has been a Director of the Free Software Foundation since its founding. He is listed as a director on the FSF web site and in the WP article: Free Software Foundation. He and Abelson also switched MIT Scheme from one of the first free software copyright use notices to the GPL a while back. You're right that this needs to be added to this biography. Feel free to do so. Lentower 20:41, 25 May 2007 (UTC)