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From: Israel Raj T <israelrt@optushome.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Language design by by committee ( was Re: Try J# ( was Re: J# is
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On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 07:23:52 GMT, Dale Stanbrough
<dale@cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:

>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

True.
In any case, Ada is probably the only programming language that I
still have fond memories of...