Johnson Phillip E wrote:
>
> >   Arrogant-Bastard wrote:
> >      specifically the design-by-committee approach

> I have always found this particularly funny when espoused by a C++ advocate.
> The look on their face when I show them a copy of a report from the AT&T C++
> language Committee is priceless.  They do not want to comment on C++
> enhancements being designed by committee.


And C99 draft standard I have is labelled "Committee Draft".
A-B will have to stick with K&R C.

BTW, using page count as a metric, C99 has a bloat factor almost identical
to that of Ada95.