From: Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Unusual syntax
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 01:51:01 GMT
Date: 2002-05-22T01:51:01+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CEAF980.3A392277@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3CEAE05B.A52B1675@attbi.com
Mark Biggar wrote:
>
> Some more history: The DOD let out 4 contracts for designing the
> language that would later be called Ada. The 4 language specs were
> given the names Red, Blue, Yellow and Green and set out to a panel
> of "Distinguished Reviewers" for comment. The result of that was that
> Red and Green were selected for further development. Eventually
> Green was chosen and named Ada.
I heard Ichbiah say once that when the competitors were reduced to Red
and Green he knew he had won, because the US DOD would never accept a
red language.
--
Jeff Carter
"I blow my nose on you."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-16 19:14 Unusual syntax Steve Caddy
2002-05-16 19:56 ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-16 20:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-05-17 10:01 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-17 19:23 ` Steve Caddy
2002-05-17 19:43 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-05-19 4:30 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-19 21:01 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-05-20 14:20 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-21 2:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-05-21 13:16 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-22 0:02 ` Mark Biggar
2002-05-22 1:51 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2002-05-22 14:20 ` Marin David Condic
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