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Ada was a real bear of a language. When it was introduced as the language of instruction in some class at UIC back in the 80s, students had to work on teams as
by dhosek 6y ago
Ada was a real bear of a language. When it was introduced as the language of instruction in some class at UIC back in the 80s, students had to work on teams as a single compilation was enough to consume the weekly CPU time allocation for a student account on the VM/CMS mainframe. They had to set up file sharing between accounts and move to a new account with each new day's login. I think there were a few cases where students ran out of CPU time even with pooled accounts before they could complete an assignment.