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From: byhoe@greenlime.com (Adrian Hoe)
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Subject: Re: Future with Ada
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Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message news:<uk7swi2ds.fsf@wanadoo.fr>...
> byhoe@greenlime.com (Adrian Hoe) writes:
> 
> > Pascal was my first structural programming language I learned. Then
> > FORTRAN, COBOL, C/C++ than Ada. Before Pascal, I was on Apple BASIC.
> 
> Interresting, I have the exact same programing language background (I mean in
> the very same order) :) Just that at the same time I learned Pascal I was also
> building my first full text editor in z80 on an Amstrad 6128.
> 
> Pascal.

Hummm...

I wrote an extension to Apple DOS using UCSD Pascal. This extension
speeds up the booting process of Apple DOS. Too bad I did not sell it
to Apple! (Otherwise, I could be richer now :) What an innocent
(naive?) boy I was then?

I got a chance to look at Ada on in Z80 on Apple but never learned it.
There was no Internet at that time and could not find Ada books.

                                       -- Adrian Hoe
                                       -- http://adrianhoe.com