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Subject: Do really Ada give you a camel when you expected a horse?
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 04:44:57 +0200
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Date: 2012-10-07T04:44:57+02:00
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After the =E2=80=9Cbloated language=E2=80=9D, =E2=80=9Cmilitary language=
=E2=80=9D and others funny  =

criticisms, here is the =E2=80=9Ccommittee language=E2=80=9D criticism:

Quoted from a Lua history paper, http://www.lua.org/history.html

     There is an old joke that says that "a camel is a horse
     designed by a committee". Among programming-language people,
     this joke is almost as popular as the legend about programming
     languages designed by committees. This legend is supported by
     languages like Algol 68, PL/I, and Ada, all designed by
     committees, which did not fulfill the expectations of their
     sponsors.

Enjoy a good laugh.

Note: I am not posting this as an easy criticism about Lua in an Ada pla=
ce  =

; and there's no bad intentions from them with this sentence, which star=
ts  =

in such way it's clear it should not be taken literally (if all criticis=
ms  =

could be as funny as this one=E2=80=A6).

-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity