Wasn Ada designed by some committee? What kind of a language could you possibly get from that kind of approach?
(Tucker Taft, the principal designer of Ada 95, responds) I believe most reviewers of Ada 9X (and Ada 83 for that matter) will assure you that it was most certainly not designed by committee ;-). In fact, with respect to MI, the situation was just the opposite. There were several reviewers who pushed hard for building in a particular approach to MI. The principle designer (;-) was unconvinced that the benefits of building in a particular MI approach outweighed the costs as far as complexity. There was no clear winner to use as a model in the outside world; even Sather and Eiffel couldn’t agree exactly on how to resolve the intricacies of MI, despite their strong similarities in other areas.
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