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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: A radical idea
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.023727.3095@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:37:27 GMT
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- Kurt.Westerfeld@f347.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Kurt Westerfeld) writes:
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- : ADA also happens to be designed by committee. I know for a fact that
- : this NEVER works with software. The best software is developed by lone
- : wolf or small teams.
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- A) Ada was not designed by a committee, it was designed by a team, and
- won a competetive process held by the US DOD in the 1970s. It was
- designed by a team from Bull in France. B) Can you name *any* software
- designed by a committee? The closest you're likely to get is the
- Multics OS, arguably the most elegant operating system ever devised.
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- Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
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