Skip to content Dijkstra was one of the reviewers of the fours language proposals which eventually lead to the language Ada: red, green, blue, and yellow (the winning proposal was green). Here are some quotes from each of the reviews: red “the proposal is both advanced and backward in such an incongruous manner that I am baffled” green “technical incompetence, probably enhanced by dishonesty” “I tried to reconstruct from the documentation a coherent design philosophy, an effort in which I failed...