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

[Ray Blaak <blaak@telus.net>]

Tim Tyler <tt@iname.com> writes:
> Here's a quick stab at explaining it: the creative process often works
> best when all the elements involved are connected together by high-speed
> axons.  When some of the communications channels involved have to go onto
> the speech level, across to other individuals and back again, everything
> is slowed down, and garbled.  Also a collection of individuals is less
> likely to behave as a coherent unit that an collection of an individuals
> neurons.  The result is perhaps more likely to be an "average" - a
> compromise between different design aims.

This is quite possible, and I have encountered this before. On the other hand,
a group of people very often catches things the lone genious overlooked.

On yet the other hand, it still shouldn't matter. Both lone genious or the
committee might have produced solid gold or complete crap. You cannot know
until you check.

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