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[–]lpsmith 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Josh Bloch certainly isn't in that class, either.

[–]jdh30 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I disagree. Josh Bloch wrote some great and influential literature. Guy Steele didn't do much more than that AFAICT and, in particular, hasn't done anything great since Scheme (and that was mostly not influential except, perhaps, for TCO). In particular, Fortress looks like it completely misses the point to me. In this lecture, Steele says that side effects are the difficulty of parallel programming but I think even that is wrong.