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On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 05:50:22 GMT, Dale Stanbrough
<dale@cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:

>Do you have any more evidence from
>the people involved in the design process that indicates that
>it was a mish mash of competing interests, rather than being
>reasonably well thought out?

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.