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From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Is there a language that Dijkstra liked? (was: Re: Software
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Date: 1998/09/17
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In article <3600E72E.24C93C94@cl.cam.ac.uk>,
  Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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.

This boggles the mind. I have no idea what "famous criticism"
of Ada you are talking about by EWD, but for sure JDI
never wrote any textbook on Ada, with or without a forward
from EWD.

Perhaps you are talking about AH's Turing address, which
certainly did not "kill interest on Ada in the academic
community" [after all at least two major Ada vendors playing
today have their roots in academic research efforts]. AH did
also write a nice forward for a book by Brian Wichman.

If it is really this that you are referring to, please check
facts -- it is easy to see how urban legends get established
:-)

EWD did write criticisms of the four colored languages, but
actually I found these criticisms fairly mild, basically he
gave the impression that he generally liked this sort of
level of language, but had nits to pick with each of the
colors!



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