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I worked at one of those other company's that designed Ada specs that didn't get selected, but we did do the first official ALS (Ada Language System). "first A
by bwanab 7y ago
I worked at one of those other company's that designed Ada specs that didn't get selected, but we did do the first official ALS (Ada Language System).
"first Ada was so complex that even the compilers had performance problems, so there was a bit of a delay getting it out"
This was largely true. The complexity of compilation really bit. But,
", and then, second, C and Unix happened"
This is silly. Unix and C had been around for years before Ada's design was accepted. I'd been working on C in a Unix environment for five years when I started working on Ada. In fact that's why I was hired since one of our first target ALS implementations was for Unix which included several C system level drivers.
- pjmlp 7y agoMaybe he means, "happened across the industry". Until the mid-90's Portuguese computing world, UNIX was only seen at some universities and eventually government level businesses. Everyone else was using some kind of mainframe, or the typical 8 and 16 bit micros, mostly networking over Novel NetWare. I only bothered to learn C when we had introduction to OSes, where our teacher would carry a single 486 PC from an university lab into the class room, running Xenix, to be shared across the whole set of students. Each preparing their samples in Atari, Amiga and MS-DOS systems, followed by copying the stuff into a floppy and being allowed a short timeslot to try out our stuff. So maybe that was where he was coming from, or then again, maybe not.