From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fdb77,374e3d493349dc8f X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,fe82bd3a72926e1a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-14 00:18:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!asynchrone!deine.net!intgwpad.nntp.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!not-for-mail From: Dale Stanbrough Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Language design by by committee ( was Re: Try J# ( was Re: J# is there )) Organization: RMIT References: <9q223u$lap2j$1@ID-77397.news.dfncis.de> <46vast4p1qnb0e8bt59v4e8616hacvcgtd@4ax.com> <3BC5C49F.B1386292@ao_spam_nix.de> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.1 (PPC) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 07:18:00 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.132.82.11 X-Complaints-To: news@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1003043880 144.132.82.11 (Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:18:00 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:18:00 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:30789 comp.lang.ada:14473 Date: 2001-10-14T07:18:00+00:00 List-Id: 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). Dale