From: tmoran@acm.org
Subject: Ada movie, was Computer History Museum, UPCOMING EVENTS
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 06:49:39 GMT
Date: 2003-01-22T06:49:39+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7arX9.657187$GR5.488058@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net> (raw)
It was a rather good movie about Ada Augusta Lovelace. There were around
100 people pretty much filling the auditorium. One of the first questions
was about the Ada language, and the response from the movie producer,
unfortunately, was that he was told at U of Maryland that they don't
currently teach Ada. So a little later I pointed out that since Babbage's
original impetus for the Difference Engine was the bugginess of math
tables, it was fitting that applications requiring high reliability
are actively using the Ada language.
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2003-01-22 6:49 tmoran [this message]
2003-01-22 19:27 ` Ada movie, was Computer History Museum, UPCOMING EVENTS Jeffrey Carter
2003-01-22 21:11 ` tmoran
2003-01-22 21:33 ` tmoran
2003-01-23 1:34 ` Jeffrey Carter
2003-01-24 6:34 ` Simon Wright
2003-01-22 22:56 ` Simon Wright
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