Origins
The expression was already in use in the United States Department of Defense circa 1975 in their Large Organization Model Building paradigm (LOMB) and was apparently in use with this meaning (initial proposal) in the United States Air Force before that. The succession of names comes from the requirements document for the programming language Ada. In the High Order Language Working Group (HOLWG) the process to define Ada generated requirements documents sporting different names, representing the various stages of development of the Ada language, as described in 1993 by Col William Whitaker in an article ACM SIGPLAN Notices. They are:
- STRAWMAN issued in April 1975
- WOODENMAN issued in August 1975
- TINMAN issued in January 1976
- IRONMAN issued in January 1977 (revised in July 1977)
- SANDMAN not published but circulated in January 1978
- STEELMAN issued in June 1978
- PEBBLEMAN issued in July 1978
- PEBBLEMAN Revised and issued in January 1979
- STONEMAN issued in February 1980
Other references include "The Ada Environment", LTC Rodney A. Edge, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC 20307, Thomas A. Marciniak, M.D., National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20205
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