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Agreed, there is so much more interesting material that could have been written. Ada once was a hyped language! In the late 80s when the DOD mandated it. It wou
by stickfigure 9y ago
Agreed, there is so much more interesting material that could have been written. Ada once was a hyped language! In the late 80s when the DOD mandated it. It would be interesting to hear the history of Ada's rise and fall.
My CSC sequence (started 1990) was taught in Ada. I was already writing a lot of Pascal so it was an easy switch. I remember feeling no great love for the compiler and tooling, however.
- stevenwoo 9y agoI worked at a NASA contractor around 1990. They had these dedicated Rational workstations with an IDE just for Ada, it made it kind of fun. My recollection is it was better than other IDEs at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_R1000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_R1000 Today it sounds silly because we can get a portable/configurable IDE for every language under the sun on any platform but back then this was amazing. We did have some process that I can't recall right now to port this to DEC/IBM mainframes/minicomputers.
- deaddodo 9y agoIt may have been "hyped" by some, but it never had any true institutional or corporate penetration. It was always the "military language" with GNAT even being funded by the USAF directly. And in that field, it ruled the roost; and still has strong penetration as a legacy platform.