From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1088a239f6f264d7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: William Clodius Subject: Re: language design lessons learned from Ada Date: 1997/10/06 Message-ID: <34397761.41C6@lanl.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 278991297 References: <3437CB1D.23D@udel.edu> Organization: Los Alamos National Lab Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-10-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Arthur Evans Jr wrote: > > Perhaps I didn't adequately explain my desires. What I want is thoughts > of those who were involved in the design process, now that it's over and > there's been time to think about how it all came out. What is good > about the design, and what could have been done better? What have we > learned that other language designers should be aware of? > If your interest is in the design process for Ada, as opposed to the design that resulted from the process, or the design process for other languages, I can only think of two references: Bill Whitacker's paper in the "History Of Programming Languages II," Thomas Bergin and Richard Gibson, Eds., ACM Press, ISBN: 0-201-89502-1, and the discussion of the Ada standardization process in the special issue of programming language standardization of Computer Standards and Interfaces Vol 16 Nos 5/6, September 1994. I am not familiar with any other Ada specific references not available at http://www.adahome.com/. A starting point for general references is Gary T. Leavens. Introduction to the Literature On Programming Language Design. Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, TR #93-01b, January 1993, revised January 1994 and February 1996. http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~leavens/main.html You might also try a search at various bibliographic databases http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mleone/web/language/bibliographies.html -- William B. Clodius Phone: (505)-665-9370 Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NIS-2 FAX: (505)-667-3815 PO Box 1663, MS-C323 Group office: (505)-667-5776 Los Alamos, NM 87545 Email: wclodius@lanl.gov