[SCC_Active_Members] Trip Report - 2005 Workshop on MiningSoftware Repositories

[Ike Nassi]

Wirth was on the Yellow team.  I think the team also consisted of SRI.

Blue was Softech.
Red was Intermetrices.
Green was Honeywell/CII.

Red and Green were chosen for a bakeoff.

Green one.
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Ike

At 11:28 AM 5/24/2005, Ronald Mak wrote:
>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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