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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)
- How dare you say such things about our Teacher the Sussman, blasphemer!
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)
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)
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