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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Here we go again...
Date: 2000/11/21
Date: 2000-11-21T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ve6kt$m0m$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3A1A2085.287ADB7C@mail.utexas.edu

In article <3A1A2085.287ADB7C@mail.utexas.edu>,
  "Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> People don't seem to stop and think about how asinine it is to
> use "designed by committee" as an attempted slur in the world
> of technology.


Actually I disagree, I think that design by committee is
probably often a bad thing in programming language design.
Certainly that's what we decided for Ada, which is why we
did NOT use the approach of design by committee for Ada!


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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-21  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-10  2:16 Here we go again dale
2000-11-09  0:00 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2000-11-10  0:00   ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-10  3:50   ` dale
2000-11-10  0:00     ` Pat Rogers
2000-11-10  0:00       ` Dale Stanbrough
     [not found] ` <vhi4s1fihvu.fsf@grotte.ifi.uio.no>
2000-11-11  0:57   ` Juergen Pfeifer
2000-11-12  0:00     ` Laurent Guerby
2000-11-11  7:25   ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-11-11  0:00     ` gdemont
2000-11-12  0:00       ` Robert Love
2000-11-12  0:00       ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-11-11  0:00     ` Marin David Condic
2000-11-21  7:13 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2000-11-21  0:00   ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2000-11-21  0:00     ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2000-11-22  5:07       ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-21  0:00   ` Tucker Taft
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