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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
Subject: Re: What if Red had won? [Or Blue?]
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 01:40:04 -0500
Date: 2013-07-17T01:40:04-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ks5e84$cfd$1@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ly4nbtvhad.fsf@pushface.org

On 7/17/2013 1:20 AM, Simon Wright wrote:

>> What about the color green? I ask becuase the RM I have dated 1983 is
>> colored dark green. I bought at a book sales show long time ago.
>

> "Ada is Green" was the cry at the time -- in other words, the Green
> proposal was the one that won the competition to become Ada.
>

I see. This explains why many of the older Ada books have green color
as main color for the book cover.

--Nasser

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-17  6:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-17  1:08 What if Red had won? [Or Blue?] Shark8
2013-07-17  3:54 ` Bill Findlay
2013-07-17  5:31   ` Shark8
2013-07-17  5:43     ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-07-17  6:20       ` Simon Wright
2013-07-17  6:40         ` Nasser M. Abbasi [this message]
2013-07-17  6:58 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-07-18  5:48   ` Shark8
2013-07-18  6:20     ` J-P. Rosen
2013-07-18  6:52     ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-07-19 21:27       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-07-17  9:46 ` Strawman
2013-07-18  5:48   ` Shark8
2013-07-17 23:30 ` Randy Brukardt
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