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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: ADA made me hate programming
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<anon@anon.org> wrote in message news:i0ii8c$1l7d$1@news.ett.com.ua...
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> For a school to receive a check from the DOD the prof. had to be
> certified aka approved by the DOD to teach Ada until Nov 1998.
> And until 1998 most schools did not teach Ada without that DOD
> check. NYU use the checks to aid the creation of GPL Ada compiler
> that we call GNAT.

Amazing. RR Software sold large numbers of Ada compilers to schools and 
students from the mid 1980's until GNAT put us out of that business, and 
this is the first I ever heard of "checks from the DoD". (Most students 
bought the compilers dirrectly from us, like other textbooks.)

Early GNAT work was funded as part of the Ada 9x project (something RRS 
wasn't particularly happy about, but we could hardly complain given our own 
work as part of that project). (But I'm no expert on early GNAT 
development.)

                        Randy.