On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 12:31:02 +1000, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: >> Democracy DOES NOT WORK. Plain and simple. You cannot build a >> programming language democratically. >> > Uhm... COBOL and Ada may be close... They were committee/competition > where the best (compromise) aspect was selected for inclusion...
And are they what you would call good languages? A committee isn't the same as democracy, although it is related. If you have two people making a decision, you potentially pull things in two directions. If you have two million people making a decision, you tear it to pieces. Vision for a language (or any other project) cannot come from a mandate from the masses. I'm waiting for my aquatic ceremony before I start building a language. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
