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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Here we go again...
Date: 2000/11/21
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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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