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Subject: Re: What if Red had won? [Or Blue?]
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On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 9:54:51 PM UTC-6, Bill Findlay wrote:
> On 17/07/2013 02:08, in article
> 
> 38846385-9884-46d5-8f58-6cf5c6049bbd@googlegroups.com, "Shark8"
> 
> > Coming across Robert Dewar's lecture on Ada's Past, Present, and Future; he
> > mentioned the four languages in Ada's history -- I haven't seen the documents
> > [and wouldn't know where/how-to get them] and started wondering what would
> > have happened if Red had won? How would Ada be different?
> > 
> > Also for Blue, though he mentions the thought of that was "it's too weird."
> > 
> > Suppositions and wild guessing welcome.
> > 
> > Link: http://www.adacore.com/adaanswers/lectures/ada-past-present-and-future/
> > 
> > PS: If anybody knows where I can get a copy of the docs for Red and/or Blue
> > I'd love to know.
> 
> 
> I had copies of all the colours at one time, but alas no longer.
> They are significant historical documents; they should be scanned and put
> online if anyone still has them.

Indeed; that's part of the reason I was looking. 

> 
> Is my memory failing or was there a Yellow as well?

There was; but Mr. Dewar made Yellow seem rather boring (basically just Pascal w/ a few new features atop). So WRT "what if another color had won?" only Red and Blue seem to be worth asking about as having interesting answers.