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Subject: Re: What if Red had won? [Or Blue?]
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"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> writes:

> On 7/17/2013 12:31 AM, Shark8 wrote:
>
>> There was; but Mr. Dewar made Yellow seem rather boring (basically
>>just Pascal w/ a few new features atop). So WRT "what if another color
>>had won?" only Red and Blue seem to be worth asking about as having
>>interesting answers.
>>
>
> 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.