Re: Interesting and historical document

[John English <je@brighton.ac.uk>]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 
> John English fed this fish to the penguins on Wednesday 18 December
> 2002 04:39 am:
> 
> > Interesting indeed. Having never seen the original Green proposal,
> 
>         I'm not even sure if I have the original Ada textbook (which came
> after the name was chosen but before I graduated in 1980)

The preliminary spec was published in SIGPLAN Notices in 1979, but
it was already called Ada by then. However, it was reasonably similar
to the final form of the standard by then. Dijkstra's comments about
Green make me think that Green must have been a very different beast
indeed from what was eventually published in 1979, and I'd be curious
to know more about it. It would also be nice to see the other proposals
-- IIRC, Red was based on Algol 68, but that's all I know about it.

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