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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.58.186.228 with SMTP id fn4mr11714938vec.7.1401158422435; Mon, 26 May 2014 19:40:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.130.169 with SMTP id of9mr29482obb.26.1401158422331; Mon, 26 May 2014 19:40:22 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!c1no17941895igq.0!news-out.google.com!qf4ni13600igc.0!nntp.google.com!c1no17941887igq.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 19:40:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=71.252.147.203; posting-account=zwxLlwoAAAChLBU7oraRzNDnqQYkYbpo NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.252.147.203 References: <1400859701.22042.369.camel@pascal.home.net> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Pre-Ada documents - Green Language From: "Dan'l Miller" Injection-Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 02:40:22 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:20044 Date: 2014-05-26T19:40:21-07:00 List-Id: 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=20 > some ACM publication (SIGPlan Notices??) - I remember reading them back w= hen=20 > I was still a student. There's only a detailed proposal for Red and Green= ,=20 > of course, Yellow and Blue were chopped early. Here is a start on such an ACM bibliography. These are Edsger Dijkstra's c= ommentaries on Blue, Yellow, Red, and Green, respectively, although I doubt= that these commentaries are proper-supersets of the full specification sub= mitted to the DoD: ["On the BLUE Language Submitted to the DoD", E.W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notice= s 13(10):10-15 (Oct 1978)].=20 ["On the YELLOW Language Submitted to the DoD", E.W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Noti= ces 13(10):22-26, Oct 1978].=20 ["On the RED Language Submitted to the DoD", E.W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices= 13(10):27 (Oct 1978)].=20 ["On the GREEN Language Submitted to the DoD", E.W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notic= es 13(10):16-21 (Oct 1978)]. Wouldn't it be great if someone could motivate ACM to make scans of that hi= storically-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 p= resident of the ACM.) Conversely, Blue, Yellow, Red, and Green went through public comment phases= . Hence, they were probably distributed on paper to government-document-de= pository 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 langu= age-cultivation procurement process. Apparently as witnessed at the link b= elow, 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, eith= er partial or scorched-earth or somewhere in between): http://CraftOfCoding.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/dijkstra-on-ada