From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dcef461458f157f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Tucker Taft Subject: Re: Here we go again... Date: 2000/11/21 Message-ID: <3A1AEC43.B80ADBF5@averstar.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 696326117 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3A1A2085.287ADB7C@mail.utexas.edu> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@inmet2.burl.averstar.com X-Trace: inmet2.burl.averstar.com 974842948 27325 141.199.8.77 (21 Nov 2000 21:42:28 GMT) Organization: AverStar (formerly Intermetrics) Burlington, MA USA Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Nov 2000 21:42:28 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-21T21:42:28+00:00 List-Id: "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 -- -Tucker Taft stt@averstar.com http://www.averstar.com/~stt/ Technical Director, Commercial Division, AverStar (formerly Intermetrics) (http://www.averstar.com/services/IT_consulting.html) Burlington, MA USA