Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Guy L. Steele Jr.
Born: October 2, 1954 (age 70)
Bio: Guy Lewis Steele Jr. is an American computer scientist who has played an important role in designing and documenting several computer programming languages.
Known for:
- The Java Language Specification (1996)
- Common Lisp the Language (1984)
- C: A Reference Manual (1984)
- Golden COMMON LISP. (1985)