From: Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: What if Red had won? [Or Blue?]
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 04:54:51 +0100
Date: 2013-07-17T04:54:51+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CE0BD41B.3286E%yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38846385-9884-46d5-8f58-6cf5c6049bbd@googlegroups.com
On 17/07/2013 02:08, in article
38846385-9884-46d5-8f58-6cf5c6049bbd@googlegroups.com, "Shark8"
<onewingedshark@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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They are significant historical documents; they should be scanned and put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.
Is my memory failing or was there a Yellow as well?
--
Bill Findlay
with blueyonder.co.uk;
use surname & forename;
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-17 1:08 What if Red had won? [Or Blue?] Shark8
2013-07-17 3:54 ` Bill Findlay [this message]
2013-07-17 5:31 ` Shark8
2013-07-17 5:43 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-07-17 6:20 ` Simon Wright
2013-07-17 6:40 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-07-17 6:58 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-07-18 5:48 ` Shark8
2013-07-18 6:20 ` J-P. Rosen
2013-07-18 6:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-07-19 21:27 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-07-17 9:46 ` Strawman
2013-07-18 5:48 ` Shark8
2013-07-17 23:30 ` Randy Brukardt
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