From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,839a7013700e2926 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson) Subject: Re: Steelman is online! Date: 1996/08/03 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 171871952 sender: news@thomsoft.com (USENET News Admin @flash) x-nntp-posting-host: pulsar references: <4tif8a$8o6@disunms.epfl.ch> <4tn4tb$dtf@ephor.tusc.com.au> <3200D1D9.167EB0E7@escmail.orl.mmc.com> organization: Thomson Software Products, San Diego, CA, USA newsgroups: comp.lang.ada originator: kst@pulsar Date: 1996-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In <3200D1D9.167EB0E7@escmail.orl.mmc.com> "Theodore E. Dennison" writes: > Anthony Shipman wrote: > > Are there documents about the losing bids (e.g. red language) ? > > I'd like to see that too. I would be interesting to see what Ada would have > looked like if one of the other "colors" was accepted. Edsger Dijkstra's comments on the Blue, Green, Yellow, and Red languages are in Sigplan Notices, Volume 13, Number 10, October 1978. An editor's note says: At some time in the future, it is expected that the original designs will be published by the N.T.I.S. (Presumably N.T.I.S.is the National Technical Information Service.) -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@thomsoft.com <*> TeleSoft^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Alsys^H^H^H^H^H Thomson Software Products 10251 Vista Sorrento Parkway, Suite 300, San Diego, CA, USA, 92121-2718 "As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion." -- ACLU v. Reno