Editing Straw man proposal (section)

==Origins==
[[File:Baddesley Clinton Scarecrow 2.jpg|thumb|upright|A [[scarecrow]] stuffed with straw]]
The name refers to the concept of a [[Straw man (dummy)|straw man]], a constructed human figure stuffed with straw.

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.<ref name="Lucas1981">{{cite book|author=Henry C. Lucas|title=Implementation: The Key to Successful Information Systems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ywIsKo4W3DwC&pg=PA94|year=1981|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-04434-9|pages=94–95}}</ref> The succession of names comes from the requirements document for the programming language [[Ada (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,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.adaic.com/pol-hist/history/holwg-93/8.htm#milestones|title = Ada - DoD HOLWG, Col Wm Whitaker, 1993}}</ref> as described in 1993 by Col William Whitaker in an article ''ACM SIGPLAN Notices''.<ref>"Ada - The Project, The DoD High Order Language Working Group", ''ACM SIGPLAN Notices'' Vol. 28, No. 3, March 1993</ref> They are:

*STRAWMAN issued in April 1975<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iment.com/maida/computer/requirements/strawman.htm|title=DoD - Strawman Requirements - April 1975|work=iment.com|access-date=24 March 2015}}</ref>
*WOODENMAN issued in August 1975<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iment.com/maida/computer/requirements/woodenman.htm|title=DoD - Woodenman Requirements - August 1975 - David A. Fisher|work=iment.com|access-date=24 March 2015}}</ref>
*TINMAN issued in January 1976<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iment.com/maida/computer/requirements/tinman.htm|title=DoD - Tinman Requirements - January 1976 - David A. Fisher|work=iment.com|access-date=24 March 2015}}</ref>
*IRONMAN issued in January 1977<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iment.com/maida/computer/requirements/ironman.htm|title=DoD - Ironman Requirements - January 1977, revised July 1977|work=iment.com|access-date=24 March 2015}}</ref> (revised in July 1977)
*SANDMAN not published but circulated in January 1978
*[[Steelman language requirements|STEELMAN]] issued in June 1978<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iment.com/maida/computer/steel/steelman.htm|title=DoD - Steelman Requirements - June 1978 - David A. Fisher|work=iment.com|access-date=24 March 2015}}</ref>
*PEBBLEMAN issued in July 1978
*PEBBLEMAN Revised and issued in January 1979
*STONEMAN issued in February 1980<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adahome.com/History/Stoneman/stoneint.htm|title=Introduction to STONEMAN On-Line|work=adahome.com|access-date=24 March 2015}}</ref>

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 <ref>{{cite journal|title=The Ada Environment|pmc=2578671 | journal=Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer Application in Medical Care|year=1984 |last1=Edge |first1=R. A. |last2=Marciniak |first2=T. A. |pages=882–885 }}</ref>