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From: emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery)
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"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.