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-Thread: 103376,69bdd90eb1c07ea8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Language development References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <3a7qe.1704$hK3.1320@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 02:46:23 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.240.244.222 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1118371583 4.240.244.222 (Thu, 09 Jun 2005 19:46:23 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 19:46:23 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11275 Date: 2005-06-10T02:46:23+00:00 List-Id: munnoch wrote: > This post was partly inspired by the ada2006 post a few doors down from this > one. I was wondering, in a casual sense, what goes into the development of > a language, for example ADA? > I've tried searching the web (google), but most of my searches are drowned > out by general programming language information and nothing turns up of an > eye catching nature. > I was wondering if anyone could (and if so, provide) help in finding > anything that could help attain at least an overview of the process? The Ada FAQ at adapower.com has an article (What is the history of Ada?) that describes the process that resulted in Ada. -- Jeff Carter "We use a large, vibrating egg." Annie Hall 44