[matthewjheaney]

Right, VHDL designed by the team at Intermetrics (which has also had a long association with Ada -- Ben Brosgol was the designer of the Red language that lost out to Green).

[sitkack]

Holy Shizzle, you met Jean Sammet?! I am super curious as to what she thought was wrong with Ada (not that I was disagree).

Reading her paper on FORMAC now, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=155372.

I chatted with Ivan Sutherland a couple years ago. Nice, prescient fellow. His Fleet project is really cool, http://arc.cecs.pdx.edu/