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> The root of the problem is that it was left to the standards committee
> to DESIGN the extension to the language. I would assert that is
> something no committee should do. The Algol 68 standard that Wirth
> created Pascal in protest of was designed by committee. Certainly
> Algol 68 might have been an important language, but it was
> "kitchen sink" standard that was overcomplex and forgotten.
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> The best language standards were those with few (or one) designers,
> and plenty of existing implementations with high efficiency, that
> subsequently went into the standards process for clarification.
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