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,f13a966d0e1d3f9d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-19 03:11:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!server3.netnews.ja.net!server2.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Interesting and historical document Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 10:12:32 +0000 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3E019B90.117BB9E1@brighton.ac.uk> References: <95e501d7.0212171946.28bbe9e8@posting.google.com> <3E006C67.43A7DA58@brighton.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: straumli.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 1040292727 17677 193.62.183.204 (19 Dec 2002 10:12:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Dec 2002 10:12:07 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32073 Date: 2002-12-19T10:12:07+00:00 List-Id: 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------