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Subject: Re: Language design by by committee ( was Re: Try J# ( was Re: J# is
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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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