Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Bug in new K&R?
Summary: cooperation & (committees & individuals)
Message-ID: <2758@geac.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 88 12:54:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.2758
Posted: Wed May 18 08:54:05 1988
References: <7861@alice.UUCP> <7860@brl-smoke.ARPA> <7288@bellcore.bellcore.com> <2990@bsu-cs.UUCP> <11593@ut-sally.UUCP> <7890@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Organization: The Geac "It want it RIGHT, not TUESDAY" Department
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>In article <11593@ut-sally.UUCP> nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes:
>>It makes me nervous to realize this evolutionary step was made by a
>>committee.

In article <7890@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>Whoopie do.  What are the alternatives?
>	1) stagnation at a functionally inadequate level
>	2) evolution by one individual's fiat (who?)
>	3) evolution by cooperating individuals (e.g. committee)
>	4) evolution by battling individuals
>Pick one.  I think I would be MORE nervous with the other alternatives.
	2a) evolution by a respected author's proposal and
	   committee vetting & acceptance (K&R II?)
	2b) evolution by a respected author's proposal and
	   independant, individual acceptance (K&R II?)
	4a) evolution into a different, translatable form
	   (specifically C++)
	5) replacement by an upwards-compatible low- or medium-level
	   language (C++ perhaps, but its a weak example)
	6) replacement in particular problem domains by VHLLs
	   (usually under the guise of 4GLs)

  In other words, the problem space is larger than the language...

--dave (I like 2a and 3) c-b
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