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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 10:18:35 +0100
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Israel Raj T wrote:
>  
> Tony Hoare was an early member of the design committee until he left
> in disgust. In his ACM Turing Award lecture "The Emperor's Old Clothes
> " he says just that.

By "design committee", do you mean the design team or the steering
committee?  (two rather different animals)

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hwyl/cheers,
Philip Anderson
Alenia Marconi Systems
Cwmbr�n, Cymru/Wales