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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada explanation?
Date: 20 Jan 1995 00:25:51 -0500
Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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Date: 1995-01-20T00:25:51-05:00
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One of the most aggravating mis-statements here is the claim that Ada
was designed by a committee. NOTHING could be further from the truth
(I speak as a member of the only committee in sight at the time, the
DR's, who certainly did NOT act as designers in any sense).

Oh well, who can control what hackers say :-)

Incidentally, I guess that hackers will also find the exception handling
facilities in C++ hilarious. Perhaps they just find it hilarious that anyone
would bother to waste time worrying about error situations in code :-)