[SCC_Active_Members] Trip Report - 2005 Workshop on MiningSoftware Repositories

[Van Snyder]

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 11:28 -0700, Ronald Mak wrote:
> I must still have one of the NS Ada manuals somewhere.  Ada dropped off
> my radar after I stopped teaching.  Wasn't Wirth's Modula one of the
> contenders to be the DoD language?

IIRC, very early on (Strawman?), DoD decided that DoD-1 (what would
become Ada) would be an Algol descendant.  Pascal, Modula-2, Coral and
Algol 68 were all considered, before it was decided to develop specs for
a new language.

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