From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Language design by by committee ( was Re: Try J# ( was Re: J# is there ))
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 13:53:44 GMT
Date: 2001-10-15T13:53:44+00:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: dale-400CAE.17165114102001@mec2.bigpond.net.au
In article <dale-400CAE.17165114102001@mec2.bigpond.net.au>, Dale Stanbrough
says...
>
>Israel Raj T wrote:
>
>> Tony Hoare was an early member of the design committee until he left
>> in disgust. In his ACM Turing Award lecture "The Emperor's Old Clothes
>> " he says just that.
>
>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.
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2001-10-14 2:49 ` Try J# ( was Re: J# is there ) Israel Raj T
2001-10-14 4:39 ` Dale Stanbrough
2001-10-14 5:23 ` Language design by by committee ( was Re: Try J# ( was Re: J# is there )) Israel Raj T
2001-10-14 5:50 ` Dale Stanbrough
2001-10-14 6:12 ` Israel Raj T
2001-10-14 7:23 ` Dale Stanbrough
2001-10-14 10:00 ` Israel Raj T
2001-10-14 10:34 ` Dale Stanbrough
2001-10-14 6:37 ` Israel Raj T
2001-10-14 7:18 ` Dale Stanbrough
2001-10-14 17:27 ` Mike Silva
2001-10-21 7:12 ` mike
2001-10-15 13:53 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2001-10-15 21:19 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-15 21:43 ` "Size" of Ada vs. C++ Ted Dennison
2001-10-16 6:51 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-16 8:53 ` Robert*
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2001-10-16 15:23 ` Sice of C++ vs Ada Marin David Condic
2001-10-17 5:39 ` "Size" of Ada vs. C++ Richard Riehle
2001-10-16 14:07 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 22:27 ` Language design by by committee ( was Re: Try J# ( was Re: J# is there )) minyard
2001-10-16 7:00 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-16 7:01 ` "Size" of Ada vs. C++ " Florian Weimer
2001-10-16 15:30 ` minyard
2001-10-20 0:54 ` Language design by by committee ( was Re: Try J# ( was Re: J# " Richard Riehle
2001-10-15 9:18 ` Philip Anderson
2001-10-15 1:54 ` Robert Dewar
2001-10-15 2:20 ` Darren New
2001-10-15 16:44 ` Ray Blaak
2001-10-15 17:12 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 18:12 ` Pascal Obry
2001-10-16 4:09 ` Tim Tyler
2001-10-16 6:01 ` Ray Blaak
2001-10-16 14:21 ` Arthur Evans Jr
2001-10-17 9:35 ` Where is jean Ichibiah now ? Israel Raj T
2001-10-17 11:57 ` john
2001-10-17 14:38 ` Israel Raj T
2001-10-17 14:08 ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-18 8:17 ` JTK
2001-10-16 14:23 ` Language design by by committee ( was Re: Try J# ( was Re: J# is there )) Arthur Evans Jr
2001-10-16 14:19 ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-16 19:15 ` Darren New
2001-10-16 14:49 ` Ted Dennison
2001-11-13 2:15 ` David Thompson
2001-10-15 19:57 ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-15 21:01 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-16 4:01 ` Tim Tyler
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