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Well, interestingly, "design by comittee" is a pejorative, so it raises the question whether C++ is, in a (specific, not universal) sense, a success or not.
by pizza234 7y ago
Well, interestingly, "design by comittee" is a pejorative, so it raises the question whether C++ is, in a (specific, not universal) sense, a success or not.
- einpoklum 7y agoC++'s design by committee is well-suited to achieve one of the key goals in the (ongoing) design on the language, which is maintaining extreme backwards compatibility and extensive mulling of potential changes by numerous independent interested parties so that changes that do make it in are nearly-consensual. You could argue whether those are the goals a language should pursue, but it's pretty obvious a central designer with free reign would not have achieved those goals.