ADA Collection from SIMTEL20 (VS0091)

This subdirectory contains a machine-readable copy of "The Rationale
for the Design of the Ada Programming Language."

This document has evolved over a number of years.  A first version
appeared in 1978 as the Rationale for the Green programming language,
and this was revised in 1979 at the time that Green was finally
selected as Ada.  The purpose of these documents was to explain the
motivation for the language design, and to justify and defend its
position against the other competitive languages and the Ironman
(later Steelman) requirements.  No corresponding document was written
in 1980 when Ada was proposed as a standard, nor in January when Ada
finally became both an ANSI and Military Standard.  The present
version completes and revises a draft issued in January 1984 and which
was the subject of public review.
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