From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3a1c64628a09855b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "(see below)" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Lack of formal syntax undermines Ada Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:51:59 +0100 Message-ID: References: <2os304dte7bu52t4ql3avpba946birp2r1@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net ZRc+B430jOY+/D/923NJBgR6v9X+90cd8Rq9VzaJKwdfrmxhid Cancel-Lock: sha1:/J6A+0Afy8qHvuZoCUoGg5nAqa0= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.1.0.080305 Thread-Topic: Lack of formal syntax undermines Ada Thread-Index: AcidqDdsnIuqkJRrR0KLHeGdU2yyrA== Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20920 Date: 2008-04-13T21:51:59+01:00 List-Id: On 13/04/2008 20:34, in article son404d3f74k4g2pu5h4rlppm69cmj175a@4ax.com, "John McCabe" wrote: ... > HOCUS sounds familiar, and it could have been in Lilybank Gardens, but > I can't remember off-hand. I think it was quite a small room in an > older building. Yes, that was LBG/HOCUS. I wrote HOCUS, actually, to make Unix usable for beginners. I still have the source, which is 90% shell commands. In 1996 we used a cut-down version of it to deliver our first Ada95 labs, which had Sun compile/execution servers with Macs as file management/editing thin clients (they replaced the file-related commands of HOCUS). >>> As a matter of interest, have I >>> already asked you if you could remember who we might have been taught >>> by? It was an old, miserable guy who wore tweed a lot as far as I can >>> remember. > >> I can think of one or two candidates (neither being me!). >> Was he tall and gaunt; or shorter, moustached, and a heavy smoker? > > Probably shorter, but I don't remember him having a moustache. Whoever > he was, he didn't like people throwing paper aeroplanes around :-) > There's a vague chance his name was something like Watt. 8-) >From your description, it definitely was not David Watt, who is tall and something of a snappy dresser. It was probably Ron Mills. -- Bill Findlay chez blueyonder.co.uk