Are there any straight famous computer scientists or programming language designers? OK I know that guido is married and has children, but his shit language sucks, so we don't count him.
Turing: openly gay. Church: also openly gay. [i]Dijkstra[/b]: most likely gay, I'd say 90% gay. Pretty much anyone involved in early days of UNIX, C, internet: bearded muscular men who enjoy close company of other bearded men, and even spend weekends together? Can't be gayer than that. Kenneth Iverson, designer of APL, died at the age of 84 being single, but that was before Canada legalized same-sex marriage. Eric Allman, developer of sendmail, the program that passes around all of your email, lives in a civil union with another man, that's A+ gay on my gay scale.
All famous CS women are trannies. This is a well-known fact.
So yeah, if you are straight and cis-gender, it must be really tough for you, so we'll be watching our gay and gender-queer privilege.
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Jerry Gay Sussman has a trans-person alter-ego, Julie Sussman.
I don't know about Guy Steele, but I doubt that a straight person would go by that name.
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Only ``true" computer geeks can be asexual. You can't call Zed Shaw, Steve Ballmer or Tim Cook ``true" geeks. They either like taking the dick or lusting over 3D pigs.
Elsa-Karin Boestad-Nilsson, she taught my computer teacher in middle school (*for gifted children*) how to reboot a prototype IBM machine by pressing ctrl-alt-delete whenever a program crashed, i kid you not. I still remember how he explained it was initially intended to be a secret key press, that later turned into a way to just reboot the damn machine. Shit if I could remember. Elsa was working for the Swedish defense research agency, so it must have been something juicy. Beats me if the old man was into trannies though.