Re: Graham on optimism vs skepticism when programming

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On Sat 31 Jul 2004, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:

> This essay by Paul Graham on designing programming languages
>
>     http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html

And here is another interesting bit for some of us:

[[[
Everyone knows that it's not a good idea to have a language designed
by a committee. Committees yield bad design. But I think the worst
danger of committees is that they interfere with redesign. It is so
much work to introduce changes that no one wants to bother. Whatever a
committee decides tends to stay that way, even if most of the members
don't like it.
]]]

I must think this 50+ times a year when reading
W3C specs (not that I could do better as an individual :)

Dean

Re: Graham on optimism vs skepticism when programming

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On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Dean Jackson wrote:

>On Sat 31 Jul 2004, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
>
>> This essay by Paul Graham on designing programming languages
>>
>>     http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html
>
>And here is another interesting bit for some of us:
>
>[[[
>Everyone knows that it's not a good idea to have a language designed
>by a committee. Committees yield bad design. But I think the worst
>danger of committees is that they interfere with redesign. It is so
>much work to introduce changes that no one wants to bother. Whatever a
>committee decides tends to stay that way, even if most of the members
>don't like it.
>]]]
>
>I must think this 50+ times a year when reading
>W3C specs (not that I could do better as an individual :)

If you only think this 50 times a year...

you should read specs more often :-)

cheers

>Dean
>

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