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From: Ray Blaak <blaak@telus.net>
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Israel Raj T <israelrt@optushome.com.au> writes:
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 04:39:14 GMT, Dale Stanbrough
> <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
> >Now repeat after me...
> >   Ada was not designed by a committee.
> >   Ada was not designed by a committee.
> >   Ada was not designed by a committee.

To me whether or not Ada was designed by a committee is irrelevant, and
perhaps semantic quibbling. Why should we care? Why does anyone care? I have
never understood this objection of "designed by a committee".

One should evaluate a language on its own merits. Whether 1, 2 or N people
designed it simply shouldn't matter; the language stands or falls based on its
own characteristics and not those of its authors.

Things get silly otherwise: "here is a great language that can do these
wonderful things". "But it was designed by a committee, so we can't use it!".
-- 
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