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From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because...
Date: 1996/08/30
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In article <5004op$ir4@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>, vsnyder@math.jpl.nasa.gov
(Van Snyder) writes: 

|> and then a design competition in which IBM, Stanford Research Institute,
|> Honeywell and Jean Ichbiah submitted designs.  (I was one of the reviewers of
|> both the requirements documents, and the design competition.)  Ichbiah won.

Not quite.  The four competitors were: 

   CII-Honeywell-Bull (Ichbiah's team) -- the Green language
   Intermetrics -- the Red language
   SofTech -- the Blue language
   SRI International -- the Yellow language

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