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,a8f3d1e506b839fc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!aotearoa.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!kramikske.telenet-ops.be!nntp.telenet.be!news.skynet.be!nuzba.szn.dk!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: FW: How come Ada isn't more popular? Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 17:55:17 -0600 Organization: Jacob's private Usenet server Message-ID: References: <45ed6ce7$0$31057$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: static-69-95-181-76.mad.choiceone.net X-Trace: jacob-sparre.dk 1173225218 13233 69.95.181.76 (6 Mar 2007 23:53:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 23:53:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9735 Date: 2007-03-06T17:55:17-06:00 List-Id: "Zoe Brain" wrote in message news:45ed6ce7$0$31057$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au... > Markus E Leypold wrote: but he was replying to me... > >> That's fair, but I disagree. (Perhaps it's just my advancing years -- > >> although it is weird to think of oneself as old at 48, considering I work > >> with much older people on the ARG -- it's still old in computer years. I > >> started out on a 4MHZ Z80 with 48K (not M!) of memory, and that will always > >> color my impressions.) > > At a guess... an Exidy Sorcerer? It was a Cromemco box and CPU board assembled from parts by a local computer guru. The CP/M BIOS was horrible (floppies and serial ports were barely functional), but since they'd provided the source, one of my first projects was to rewrite it to properly take advantage of the controllers we had. Interesting days: I can hardly imagine doing something like it today. > I'm of similar vintage you see. Though the first code I wrote was to > "help" my Father, in 1966. Some FORTRAN II. My first coding was on a fancy machine that really was little more than a programmable calculator (this was in 1974). I got to use Fortran once I got to the University of Wisconsin in 1976. Then Pascal, C, Modula (not Modula-2, not invented yet!), and eventually Ada. Randy.