I spent several days with DG when we were working on PIX and QIX, and I found him to be a smart, helpful person. Of course, he was on a crusade for tuple spaces, but you shouldn't hold that against him. Also, that was before he had several fingers blown off.
He named Linda before he had several fingers blown off too. I believe his crusade against the 90-something percent of climate scientists that believe in anthropogenic climate change is after he lost the fingers. I’m very sad he lost them, no one should have to deal with that. He was kind of an asshole before -and- after. And fwiw I’m using a broad definition of asshole, one that explicitly includes both people who name languages after porn stars because they were offended by Ada and people who deny established science outside of their field which has the not-inconsequential likelihood of causing mass extinctions.
