Re: Pre-Ada documents - Green Language

["Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net>]

On Friday, May 23, 2014 4:52:16 PM UTC-5, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> (There were four original proposals. And I think they all were published in 
> some ACM publication (SIGPlan Notices??) - I remember reading them back when 
> I was still a student. There's only a detailed proposal for Red and Green, 
> of course, Yellow and Blue were chopped early.

Here is a start on such an ACM bibliography.  These are Edsger Dijkstra's commentaries on Blue, Yellow, Red, and Green, respectively, although I doubt that these commentaries are proper-supersets of the full specification submitted to the DoD:
["On the BLUE Language Submitted to the DoD", E.W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices 13(10):10-15 (Oct 1978)]. 
["On the YELLOW Language Submitted to the DoD", E.W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices 13(10):22-26, Oct 1978]. 
["On the RED Language Submitted to the DoD", E.W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices 13(10):27 (Oct 1978)]. 
["On the GREEN Language Submitted to the DoD", E.W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices 13(10):16-21 (Oct 1978)].

Wouldn't it be great if someone could motivate ACM to make scans of that historically-valuable issue available as bitmap-PDFs on ACM Digital Library?  Is anyone friends with Vinton Cerf or any of the other people of influence in ACM?  (ARPAnet-pioneer-&-Internet-luminary Vinton Cerf is the current president of the ACM.)

Conversely, Blue, Yellow, Red, and Green went through public comment phases.  Hence, they were probably distributed on paper to government-document-depository libraries by the GAO during the 1970s.

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.  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