From: emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery)
Subject: Quote for the Day
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 21:38:07 GMT
Date: 1993-03-17T21:38:07+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EMERY.93Mar17163807@goldfinger.mitre.org> (raw)
"When Bell Labs were invited to evaluate C against the DoD
requirements, they said that there was no chance of C meeting the
[STEELMAN] requirements of readability, safety, etc, for which were
were striving, and that it should not even be on the list of evaluated
languages. We recognized the truth in their observation and honored
their request."
William H. Whitaker, Col, USAF (ret), "Ada - The Project: The DoD
High Order Language Working Group", History of Programming Languages -
II, ACM SIGPlan Notices, v.28, #3, March 1993, pg 314.
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1993-03-17 21:38 David Emery [this message]
1993-03-18 16:43 ` Quote for the Day enterpoop.mit.edu!Shiva.COM!world!srctran
1993-03-18 18:52 ` Timothy M. Schreyer
1993-03-18 21:15 ` Dave Bashford
1993-03-18 22:18 ` Timothy M. Schreyer
1993-03-19 0:50 ` David Weller
1993-03-19 8:29 ` Jim Lonjers
1993-03-18 20:18 ` David Emery
1993-03-19 15:07 ` Gregory Aharonian
1993-03-18 21:12 ` Greg Franks
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