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Subject: Re: Do really Ada give you a camel when you expected a horse?
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 05:38:31 +0200
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Le Sun, 07 Oct 2012 05:19:33 +0200, Dennis Lee Bieber  =

<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> a =C3=A9crit:
> 	No mention of COBOL and CODASYL? (Or the DBTG and network database
> systems?)
>
> 	In comparison to COBOL, Ada was just designed by a team, not a
> committee -- a committee may have approved the design, but how many
> languages are still the domain of a single person? Even BASIC is
> accredited to Kemeny and Kurtz (sp?).

I'm near to finish reading this paper, and they introduce this issue. Th=
ey  =

acknowledge they have them=E2=80=91self designed Lua in a kind of commit=
tee, but a  =

small committee, and the =E2=80=9Csmall=E2=80=9D looks important to them=
. By the way, I'm  =

not sure to know what's the exact difference between a team and a  =

committee. Obviously, the bigger the committee is, the harder it is to g=
et  =

an unanimity (I know it's just smalltalk). Well, there don't seems to be=
  =

that much turnover with Ada's committee, isn't it? Looks good in that  =

regard: not too big (thanks to the proposal submission process), not too=
  =

small (all main and serious actors belongs to it), and stable though tim=
e  =

as far as I know.

-- =

=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