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Sussman rocks edit
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! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.41.74.86 (talk) 16:38, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Steele's poem on Sussman edit
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? edit
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)
Dates needed edit
This article would be much improved by adding the years to the events and projects it mentions. E.g. "In YEAR", "From YEAR to now". Lentower (talk) 17:47, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
Amogus edit
Stop posting about Among Us, I'm tired of seeing it. 70.124.147.243 (talk) 22:56, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
Can whoever keeps trying to coverup Sussman's time on Epstein's island and association with Epstein please stop deleting this information from his page? I've added a bunch of times with sources and it keeps getting deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.133.177.216 (talk) 13:55, 27 June 2022 (UTC)