I got to thinking about this issue in re-reading my own comments. One of
the general principles of this game seems to be that anything designed
by one or two very bright individuals has a fighting chance of turning
out brilliant; anything designed by committee (even a well-intentioned one)
tends to be unwieldly, bloated, and otherwise a general mess.
I can think of a number of examples of this from my own experience -- all but
a couple of which now constitute key building blocks of the 'net:
C: Kernighan, Ritchie
Unix: Ritchie, Thompson
BSD Unix: Leffler, McKusick, Karels, Bostic
NNTP: Kantor
web: Berners-Lee
tcl/tk: Ousterhout
PGP: Zimmerman
Perl: Wall
Java: Gossling
Linux: Torvalds
sendmail: Allman
csh: Joy
ksh: Korn
Most of the important and early RFCs: Postel, Crocker
I leave the counterexamples as an exercise to the reader. ;-)
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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