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Subject: Re: Language design by by committee ( was Re: Try J# ( was Re: J# is
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>Dale Stanbrough <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote in message news:<dale- 
>> 
>> 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).
>> 
>> Dale

FYI;

Prof Tony Hoare is now a member of the MicroSoft Research group for
programming principles and tools.
 
http://research.microsoft.com/ppt/

 
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