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From: dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller)
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Subject: Re: Ada explanation?
Date: 21 Jan 1995 21:21:07 -0600
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In article <3fnhgv$4mh@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>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

>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 :-)
>

Oddly, C++ is indeed a language being designed by committee (AND
subcommittees!).  


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