[SCC_Active_Members] Trip Report - 2005 Workshop on MiningSoftware Repositories

[Ike Nassi]

It was Intel's 432.
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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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