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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a146,5dbc5c834131d614 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,fe82bd3a72926e1a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,374e3d493349dc8f X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-16 08:15:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BCC41F7.AFF1FCD8@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wwgrol@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Language design by by committee ( was Re: Try J# ( was Re: J# is there )) References: <9q223u$lap2j$1@ID-77397.news.dfncis.de> <46vast4p1qnb0e8bt59v4e8616hacvcgtd@4ax.com> <3BC5C49F.B1386292@ao_spam_nix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:19:35 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1003241985 151.168.144.162 (Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:19:45 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:19:45 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.programmer:102214 comp.lang.java.advocacy:30902 comp.lang.ada:14689 Date: 2001-10-16T09:19:35-05:00 List-Id: Tim Tyler wrote: > As consequences of this sort of thing design-by-committee is likely to > produce systematically different results to (say) design by > individual creative genius. Not everyone always likes the differences. Who cares what it's likely to produce? It's already produced--all one has to do is look at it and see whether it's good or bad. The evidence is available. The "designed by committee" slogan is just a red herring used for two purposes: 1. To rationalize someone's choice to avoid Ada 2. To distract other people from finding out how good Ada is. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau