These Working Papers were used by Warfield in preparation of a document titled: ADA Syntax Study and Recommendations: A Proposal to The Software Productivity Consortium, Part I Found by Rose Warfield in 2011 when cleaning out Warfield’s old papers, the papers show Warfield's HAND WRITTEN calculations and HAND DRAWN diagrams. These papers might be of interest to archivists at Fenwick Library's Special Collections Department, where a copy of Warfield’s completed PROPOSAL is already stored in Warfield Collection Box 9 Folder 20. Warfield’s finished Proposal which came from these Working Papers is dated 1987, the year in which he submitted it to the Software Consortium at George Mason University. The Proposal was never digitized, never published and never recognized by the GMU Software Consortium or anyone else. Nevertheless Warfield continued to keep his home copy of the proposal for years, saying it had valuable information which would be useful some day.

Here some of Warfield’s comments, scribbled down by Rose in 2008 when she asked him about the Software Proposal document: and why it was important:: “ADA was a software language somebody sold to government in a belief could be used by all branches of govt for all purposes. ....Specially embedded software for missiles and weapons. It was concept by a big committee from several companies each had financial interests.... I was convinced it was a nightmare and would never work. Another person felt the same way, (HARLAN MILLS) an IBM big shot who wrote papers ...in Florida I retained ....a high level committee curriculum workshop, My purpose: to develop a structure of syntax of this ADA language to show it was so complicated that no one could use it. Someone issued a high level ruling - no subsets of ADA would be allowed. Absurd. I got information on 125 compilers which had been written as master programs for ADA but only 2 of them worked. I later found out the guy in charge of master programs was working at Software Consortium, so of course they didn’t want to accept my proposal.... I had already developed the structure of syntax for some other languages (ALGOL, PASCAL, C++) I had published 2 or 3 papers with structures for already published programs showing they should have known (THE STRUCTURE) before designing languages. They should have worked them out. The GMU Software Consortium never acknowledged receiving my proposal document. They never turned it down. And they never returned it to me”