SofTech People and Early Ada Implementations

SofTech People and Early Ada Implementations

[Bevin]

In article <19165.677533889@osprey>, munck@STARS.RESTON.UNISYS.COM (Bob Munck) writes...

>Gee, when I interviewed with the DEC team doing the Ada compiler, about
>half -- Ike Nassi, Larry Shaffer, Earl Van Horn -- were former
>SofTechers. Earl probably left before the DOD-1 work got started at
>SofTech, but not Ike or Larry. I think Ike is now running an Apple
>research center in Maryland and Larry is a member of the Intermetrics
>Ada-9X group.
> 
>Bob Munck

Ah, my mistake, I was actually thinking of the second wave of people from
SofTech.

Even so, the major architects of the VAX Ada V1.0 compiler were not SofTech
people, they were either long-term DECcies [Ron Brender, Charlie Mitchell,
Rich Grove] or new arrivals in both DEC and the Ada community [Ian Stocks and
myself].

I don't know how to parcel out the runtime system's final design between
Ike Nassi and Bob Conti.

Even though I have been on the VAX Ada team since '82, Larry had already left
by then; Earl's name does not ring any bells at all (I'll hve to mention it
over coffee and find out if there is a whole area of ancient history I don't
know about).

/Bevin