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 10.66.66.35 with SMTP id c3mr10498061pat.7.1401574754659; Sat, 31 May 2014 15:19:14 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.249.72 with SMTP id ys8mr149008obc.9.1401574754549; Sat, 31 May 2014 15:19:14 -0700 (PDT) Path: border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!c1no21648481igq.0!news-out.google.com!gi6ni17440igc.0!nntp.google.com!hl10no8303913igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 15:19:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1633091348422983187.299245yaldnif.w-blueyonder.co.uk@news.individual.net> 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: <1633091348422983187.299245yaldnif.w-blueyonder.co.uk@news.individual.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: Sat, 31 May 2014 22:19:14 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:186682 Date: 2014-05-31T15:19:14-07:00 List-Id: On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 10:22:26 AM UTC-5, Bill Findlay wrote: > Col. Whittaker (sp?) sent me a copy of each colour, but I stupidly binned > them a long time ago. 8-( Other than various forms of delivery by Col. Whittaker, what was the primar= y distribution mechanism of the Blue, Yellow, Red, and Green tinman docume= nts that underwent a so-called "extensive public review"? (If delivery by = Col. Whittaker was the only mechanism, I cannot see how that qualified as a= n extensive public review, indeed perhaps not even a public review at all.) To be considered an extensive public review, these documents must have been= made available publicly via non-ad-hoc document-distribution channels with= in the USA (e.g., GAO to government-depository libraries; entry as amendmen= ts into the Congressional Record; some form of DoD document distribution) o= r throughout NATO. Do any of the people active in HOLWG during the 1970s r= emember obtaining the Blue, Yellow, Red, or Green specifications via any so= urce other than Col. Whittaker and/or reading about them indirectly via Dij= kstra's commentary in the SIGPLAN Notices bibliography above? For example,= yeah, back in the 1970s, I photocopied mine from the ones in the _________= library. Or, yeah, back in the 1970s, I send a small check to cover posta= ge to the postal address of the ________ office in the federal government, = then they arrived a few weeks later in the U.S. Mail.