[SystemSafety] A Common Programming Language for the Department of Defense

[Ben Brosgol]

Fisher's P-1191 document referenced his earlier report:

David A. Fisher, "Automatic Data Processing Costs in the Defense
Department", Institute for Defense Analyses Paper P-1046, October 1974.

which my IDA colleague was also able to excavate. It can be accessed at

http://www1.adacore.com/~brosgol/Fisher-IDA-P-1046.pdf


On 4/27/2017 1:43 PM, Ben Brosgol wrote:
> One of my colleagues at IDA sent me a pdf (7.5MB):
>
> http://www1.adacore.com/~brosgol/Fisher-P-1191.pdf
>
> The author, Dave Fisher, was also the principal author of the various
> requirements documents (Strawman etc) that eventually led to the design
> of the Ada language.  I was the head of the Red language team during the
> design competition; those were interesting times :-)
>
> On 4/27/2017 12:47 PM, Derek M Jones wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> Following a suggestion by James Inge I posted a request:
>>> Try http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/contactus/askaLibrarian.html
>>
>> and just received a reply :-)
>>
>> "It appears that we do not currently have a digital copy of this report
>> available. Our current estimate is 4-6 weeks for the document to be
>> retrieved from our archives, scanned and posted on the public site
>> (http://www.dtic.mil), although it may appear sooner. Please check the
>> DTIC Public Collection (http://www.dtic.mil) for your report in about 30
>> days and recheck weekly thereafter."
>>
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