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From: "Pat Rogers" <progers@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Is there a language that Dijkstra liked? (was: Re: Software
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Date: 1998/09/17
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Markus Kuhn wrote in message <3600E72E.24C93C94@cl.cam.ac.uk>...
>Rick Smith wrote:
>> Of the comments attributed to Dijkstra, I have never heard a
comment
>> that was favorable toward any language! Is there a language that
Dijkstra
>> liked?
>
>I thought that Dijkstra wrote years after his famous criticism on
Ada,
>which basically killed interest on Ada in the academic community
for
>many years, a quite nice foreword for an Ada 83 textbook by Jean
Ichiba.

Perhaps you are thinking of that by C.A.R. Hoare.  A very similar
situation, after his Turing Award lecture.  The book is "Ada
Language and Methodology".  In the foreword Hoare says of Ada, among
other nice things:

"... the language incorporates many excellent structural features...
...one can now look forward to a rapid and widespread improvement in
programming practice, both from those who use the language and from
those who study its concepts and structures. ..."

Authors: Watt, David; Wichmann, Brian; Findlay, William
Prentice-Hall International Series on Computer Science, 1987
ISBN 0-13-004078-9


-- pat

Patrick Rogers
progers@acm.org
http://www.neosoft.com/~progers