Re: Interesting and historical document

[Karl Kleine <kleine@fh-jena.de>]

John English <je@brighton.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> 
>> John English fed this fish to the penguins on Wednesday 18 December
>> 2002 04:39 am:
>> 
>> > Interesting indeed. Having never seen the original Green proposal,
>> 
>>         I'm not even sure if I have the original Ada textbook (which came
>> after the name was chosen but before I graduated in 1980)

> The preliminary spec was published in SIGPLAN Notices in 1979, but
> it was already called Ada by then. However, it was reasonably similar
> to the final form of the standard by then. Dijkstra's comments about
> Green make me think that Green must have been a very different beast
> indeed from what was eventually published in 1979, and I'd be curious
> to know more about it. It would also be nice to see the other proposals
> -- IIRC, Red was based on Algol 68, but that's all I know about it.

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I still have the Green language definition and its rationale, as well
as the RED language proposal. It's a long time, and I have to check
my archives, as as far as I recall right now, RED was more in the
Pascal tradition. I will check and maybe make it available also on
my history page
	http://www.fh-jena.de/~kleine/history
where you can find a number of language manuals of time gone by.
(No Ada entry yet, but that will also come sometime soon also)

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