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,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,982ed90dd25179ec X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-02 06:24:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!HSNX.atgi.net!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!151.164.30.35!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: point by point advantages of Ada References: <1041186672.615164@ns2-ext.dcu.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <7YXQ9.2326$c6.2494@bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com> Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 09:24:03 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.133.155 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1041517443 151.168.133.155 (Thu, 02 Jan 2003 09:24:03 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 09:24:03 EST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32448 Date: 2003-01-02T09:24:03-05:00 List-Id: >> Why is it that we never hear complaints about C++ being a language >> "designed >> by a committee", given the HUGE expansion of the language during the ISO >> "standardization" process? Speaking as an "outsider" (and therefore probably wrong) it looks like it was not designed by committee, but rather by a large number of enthusiastic users throwing in every 'kitchen-sink' feature that suited their fancy. > To a certain extent, the compiler writers have been waiting for code that > would teach them the language. ..... In other words, they have job openings in quality control--and the formal title of the open position is "customer."