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Re:Dylan: the harsh realities of the market by topkekz on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @08:55AM (#8226828)
>Ada was designed by one man

http://cs.fit.edu/~ryan/ada/ada-hist.html

"The Ada design team was led by Jean D. Ichbiah and has included Berned Krieg-Bruechner, Brain A. Wichmann, Henry F. Ledgard, Jean-Cluade Heliard, Jean-Loup Gailly, Jean-Ryanmond Abrial, John G. P. Barnes, Mike Woodger, Olivier Roubine, Paul N. Hilfinger, and Robert Firth."

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Re:Dylan: the harsh realities of the market by rwallace on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @09:51AM (#8227035)
Right, but wasn't it structured as 'Ichbiah assisted by the others' rather than 'Ichbiah leading a committee by consensus'? In particular, iirc, there were some points at which the others almost unanimously disagreed with Ichbiah on some design decision and he overruled them and went ahead anyway.
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