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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f44e8b91bd1d669d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-21 18:51:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!netnews.com!xfer02.netnews.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!59ce1190!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CEAF980.3A392277@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Unusual syntax References: <5ee5b646.0205170201.2582c8ef@posting.google.com> <3CE55D49.70638FEE@acm.org> <5ee5b646.0205182030.45ade229@posting.google.com> <3CE812B1.492EF78E@acm.org> <3CE9B65A.BE66B61C@acm.org> <3CEAE05B.A52B1675@attbi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 01:51:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.106.241 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1022032261 63.184.106.241 (Tue, 21 May 2002 18:51:01 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 18:51:01 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24494 Date: 2002-05-22T01:51:01+00:00 List-Id: 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