Re: Here we go again...

[Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com>]

"Bobby D. Bryant" wrote:
> 
> dale wrote:
> 
> >    "Ada is Pascal based, but it is a complex language
> >     designed by committee for the military, and that's
> >     at least three strikes against it."
> 
> My standard response to the "designed by committee" dis is to ask the
> speaker whether s/he would ever consider buying an automobile, riding an
> airplane, or working in a building that was designed by a committee.
> People don't seem to stop and think about how asinine it is to use
> "designed by committee" as an attempted slur in the world of technology.

Ada wasn't designed by committee, for what its worth.
If someone thinks it was designed by committee, they haven't
met Jean Ichbiah (or me, for that matter ;-).

> Bobby Bryant
> Austin, Texas

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