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From: Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Pre-Ada documents - Green Language
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 12:46:36 +0100
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On 27/05/2014 03:40, in article
aff1f881-6096-44b8-9e84-3d45a6c9b3b2@googlegroups.com, "Dan'l Miller"
<optikos@verizon.net> wrote:
 
> Of course, Dijkstra's commentary in 1978 needs to be taken with a grain of
> salt because of Dijkstra's apparent general disdain of the entire DoD
> language-cultivation procurement process.

I have spent some time reading through the Dijstra archive, and there are
few things for which he does not show disdain (apart from his ineffably
wonderful self, of course).

> Apparently as witnessed at the link
> below, Dijkstra had some skin in the game of seeing that all of Blue, Yellow,
> Red, and Green fail (or be tarnished or some other negative outcome, either
> partial or scorched-earth or somewhere in between):
> http://CraftOfCoding.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/dijkstra-on-ada

That comment to Ershov verges on the unhinged.

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Bill Findlay
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