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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,349657f8b72f2411 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Where's Ada95 when OO languages are discussed? Date: 1999/03/24 Message-ID: <7dal79$tuf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 458344810 References: <7d8ik6$s6d$1@its.hooked.net> <36F7F02E.BC57F7CB@aasaa.ofe.org> <87emmfpw3t.fsf@mihalis.ix.netcom.com> <36F837D3.3F7227FA@aasaa.ofe.org> <877ls7porm.fsf@mihalis.ix.netcom.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x10.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Mar 24 12:18:55 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-03-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , 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 :-) -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own