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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Pre-Ada documents - Green Language
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 16:06:02 -0400
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Shark8 <OneWingedShark@gmail.com> writes:

> On 23-May-14 15:52, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>> You have some aversion to Yellow?
>
> Not really -- but from what I heard (I thought it was you who commented
> on it) it was basically just Pascal with a few alterations/additions.

All four were supposedly based on Pascal.  I believe Yellow was closely
based on Pascal, but still, more than "basically just Pascal with...",
and the others were much more loosely based on Pascal.

Ada (even Ada 83) is of course hugely different from Pascal.

- Bob