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From: stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: The Red Language
Date: 1997/09/08
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Robert Dewar (dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu) wrote:

: Michael said

: <<So. Would the Red language be "doable" with today's compiler
: technology? Would it (might it) be superior to present-day
: languages?

: Or do we already HAVE the Red language in our midst?
: (Red = Intermetrics = STT = Ada95)  ;^)>>

: No, Ada 95 is nothing like Red (at least not in the respects where
: Red and Green most importantly differed). 

Although I work at Intermetrics, I have very little familiarity
with "Red."  I joined Intermetrics in September 1980, after the "Red" 
language effort was over, and John Nestor had left for "greener"
pastures ;-).

Almost all of the ideas for Ada 95 were based on experiences with
Ada 83 and other 80's languages such as C++, Modula-X, CLOS, etc.
plus reading knowledge of other languages such as Oberon, ORCA,
Haskell, etc.

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-Tucker Taft   stt@inmet.com   http://www.inmet.com/~stt/
Intermetrics, Inc.  Burlington, MA  USA