[SCC_Active_Members] Trip Report - 2005 Workshop on MiningSoftware Repositories

[Ronald Mak]

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

Ronald Mak
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University of California at Santa Cruz
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> on MiningSoftware Repositories
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> 
> Ada was certainly under-appreciated.  (In the interest of 
> full disclosure, 
> I helped design it.)
> ---
> Ike