From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Where's Ada95 when OO languages are discussed?
Date: 1999/03/24
Date: 1999-03-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7dal79$tuf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dale-2403991536470001@dale.bu.cs.rmit.edu.au
In article <dale-2403991536470001@dale.bu.cs.rmit.edu.au>,
dale@cs.rmit.edu.au (Dale Stanbrough) wrote:
> I would agree that it is "common knowledge" that Ada was
> designed by committee in that it is a very common view
> held by a lot of people who
> consider it to be knowledge, and not just unverified
> rumour.
When Dave Parnas (who really *should* know better) claimed
that Ada was designed by a committee in an interview, I
wrote a letter to GCN setting this (and a lot of other
plain misinformation in the article) straight.
I commented that this was entirely wrong, and that Ada was
designed by a team with a team captain (and pointed out
that at least sports fans do not make the mistake of
confusing a team with a committee :-)
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1999-03-23 0:00 Where's Ada95 when OO languages are discussed? Mike Silva
1999-03-23 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-23 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-23 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Kevin
1999-03-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-27 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-03-28 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-24 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1999-03-30 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-30 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-03-30 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-30 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-31 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-04-13 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Mike Harrison
1999-04-13 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-24 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar [this message]
1999-03-23 0:00 ` fred
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-03-25 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-25 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1999-03-25 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
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