[SCC_Active_Members] Trip Report - 2005 Workshop on MiningSoftware Repositories

[Ike Nassi]

I meant to say that Green "won". Duh...
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Ike

At 11:30 AM 5/24/2005, Ike Nassi wrote:
>Wirth was on the Yellow team.  I think the team also consisted of SRI.
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>Blue was Softech.
>Red was Intermetrices.
>Green was Honeywell/CII.
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>Red and Green were chosen for a bakeoff.
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>Green one.
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>Ike
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>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
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>> > -----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.
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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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