Re: ADA made me hate programming

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In <i0j8df$i0s$1@munin.nbi.dk>, "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
><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.
>
>

Rather you call it being sponsor, funded, or receiving a grant its 
all the same.  Money Talks!

As long as the DoD funded Ada and its projects, professors were 
happy to take the money.  Once the funding vanished, those 
professors redirected their efforts to projects using newer whiz-bang
languages that looked good when they submitted papers for publication. 
And a lot of college and universities require their professors
to publish on current topics, which Ada is not high on that list.

NYU Ada team just took it to the next level branching outside the 
university to become Adacore.