[SCC_Active_Members] Trip Report - 2005 Workshop on MiningSoftware Repositories

[Ronald Mak]

Ah ... it was probably the NS32000 chip I'm thinking of.  It had either
just come out, or this was during its pre-intro hype period.  So many
years, so many classes, so many chips, so few brain cells left.

I must still have one of the NS Ada manuals somewhere.  Ada dropped off
my radar after I stopped teaching.  Wasn't Wirth's Modula one of the
contenders to be the DoD language?

-- Ron

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ike Nassi [mailto:nassi at nassi.com] 
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 10:07 PM
> To: Ronald Mak; 'Van Snyder'; 'Lee Courtney'
> Cc: scc_active at computerhistory.org
> Subject: RE: [SCC_Active_Members] Trip Report - 2005 Workshop 
> on MiningSoftware Repositories
> 
> 
> It was Intel's 432.
> ---
> Ike
> 
> At 07:57 PM 5/23/2005, Ronald Mak wrote:
> >Way back around 1979, I taught one of the first Ada courses at Santa 
> >Clara University when I was teaching graduate classes on programming 
> >language theory and design.  I started teaching Ada from the Ironman 
> >specs.  Later, National Semiconductor found out about my class, and 
> >they were designing a chip then that was supposed to execute 
> Ada well 
> >(was it the 423? or was that the Intel chip?).  Anyway, they 
> supplied 
> >all my students with free Ada manuals, all with National 
> Semiconductor 
> >covers, of course.
> >
> >Ada was a great language to use in my class.  Back then, it had 
> >everything a CS professor ever wanted -- structured programming, 
> >abstract data types, exception handling, concurrency, etc. -- except 
> >objects.  For objects, I taught Smalltalk.
> >
> >-- Ron
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