From: dirk@heli.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Dirk Craeynest)
Subject: Re: A history question
Date: 11 Jan 2005 00:48:28 +0100
Date: 2005-01-11T00:48:28+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <crv48c$1vh$1@heli.cs.kuleuven.ac.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: crv0lc$5g4$02$1@news.t-online.com
Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> wrote:
>According to http://www.cs.fit.edu/~ryan/ada/ada-hist.html
>HOLWG evaluated 23 existing languages against the Tinman
>requirements. C was not among these languages. Does anyone
>happen to know why? Thanks.
I quote from <http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/quotes.html>, roughly
half-way down the page with quotes:
"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
we 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
I hope this helps.
Dirk (Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.ac.be for Ada-Belgium/Europe/WG9 mail)
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