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: 103376,fe82bd3a72926e1a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-14 00:23:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!intgwpad.nntp.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!not-for-mail From: Dale Stanbrough Newsgroups: 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 07:23:52 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.132.82.11 X-Complaints-To: news@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1003044232 144.132.82.11 (Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:23:52 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:23:52 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14474 Date: 2001-10-14T07:23:52+00:00 List-Id: Israel Raj T wrote: > Neither do I . > > However, whether or not he had veto rights, in practice the committee > worked by consensus ie: classic committee mode. In Whitaker's own > words: So it seems. He also reports that it was a rather successful one, with one comment being... "At this time there was an initiative called the "Two Way Street", which was to promote Defense acquisition cooperation between the United States and its NATO allies. The DDR&E once told me that he thought that the HOLWG program was the only example that was working." Dale