Out of curiosity I looked to see if the guy who taught me was still around and it turns out he was head of York University's Computer Science department and is still one of their professors' and has his own wiki page (although he was egotistical enough to create it himself).
But what is (sort of) really cool is that one of the projects he created is a spin off from the research I did in the late 80s (it is a development of the testing system we devised to test the algorithms I was working on). Does that make me famous ;) << I remember ADA being a PITA. Too strict a language (and I *like* strongly-types languages).>> Once you got into it ADA was really good as it trapped most stupid errors and read really well (like VFP) but if you really want to set your teeth on edge try OCCAM (for transputers) or APL (who creator was obviously demented). Regards Michael Hawksworth -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Hill Sent: 22 June 2007 09:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [NF] The Top 10 Dead or Dying Computer Skills On 6/22/07, Michael Hawksworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ADA is a great language that was killed by the level of documentation you > had to do for the ESA/NASA/MOD/DOD... how many projects have you worked on > that you needed to formally prove using 'Z'. Talk about test driven > development. I remember programming in ADA at college. ADA has multi tasking built into the language. We used a DOS-based compiler (interpreter?). Multi-tasking was a problem with DOS of course, so you had to insert wait(0) calls into the code at various points to get it working correctly. I remember ADA being a PITA. Too strict a language (and I *like* strongly-types languages). -- Paul [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
