Steelman language requirements

A set of requirements which a high-level general-purpose programming language should meet, created by the [US DoD]? in The Department of Defense Common High Order Language program in 1978. Older versions of this list were called, in order, 'Strawman', 'Woodenman', 'Tinman' and 'Ironman'.

It was concluded that no existing language met these criteria to a sufficient extent, so a contest was called to create a language that would be closer to fulfiling them.

This contest was won by the Ada programming language, but it didn't became popular outside of [US DoD]?.

Whether these requirements

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 [DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE REQUIREMENTS FOR HIGH ORDER COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES "STEELMAN"]