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gls - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Guy Lewis Steele, Jr.
  GLS
  Guy Steele
  
     <person> (GLS) A software engineer whose most notable
     contributions to the art of computing include the design of
     Scheme (in cooperation with Gerald Sussman) and the design
     of the original command set of Emacs.  He is also known for
     his contribution to the Jargon File and for being the first
     to port TeX (from WAITS to ITS).  He wrote the book
     "Common Lisp", which virtually defines the language.
  
     He was working at Sun Microsystems, Inc. from 1996 to the
     present (June 2001).
  
     (2001-06-14)