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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: 1998/09/18
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In article <36018F49.9E3360E3@ibm.net>,
  bijuthom@ibm.net wrote:
> dewarr@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> >
> > 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!
>
> Pardon my ignorance, but, what are colored languages? Haven't heard such
> a term before...
>
> Biju Thomas

The four competitors in the original Ada design competition
were dubbed red, green, blue and yellow. Green won and became
Ada. Actually what happened is that first blue and yellow
were discarded, leaving red (intermetrics) and green
(honeywell) and then green won that two way competition.

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