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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Amogus[edit]

Stop posting about Among Us, I'm tired of seeing it. 70.124.147.243 (talk) 22:56, 12 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]