This has some solid political advice courtesy of Peter Naur: If you want to get a committee to do what you want, show up with most of the work already done. Tha

This has some solid political advice courtesy of Peter Naur: If you want to get a committee to do what you want, show up with most of the work already done. That work became the starting point for all the future negotiations. And his influence on Algol-60 spec was a strong contributor to him receiving a Turing award years later.