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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Language design by by committee ( was Re: Try J# ( was Re: J#
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Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> writes:

>>Tony Hoare left because he thought the language was way too big.
>>Later on he wrote a foreward to a book in which he recanted this
>>view, and hope people would have the opportunity to use Ada (I
>>think he said "this fine language", but I can't be sure).
>
> ..and compared to C++, Ada is fairly small. 

I'm not sure if this is true if you look at the language core only
(and don't take into account any non-essential run-time library
components, such as containers or valarrays).