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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Adacore French connection Date: Sat, 5 May 2018 23:44:11 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <9c3a75d6-a01f-4cfa-9493-10b8b082ead8@googlegroups.com> <114db2c4-1e8c-4506-8d7c-df955dd9f808@googlegroups.com> <87d0yc1lsq.fsf@nightsong.com> <878t901jp4.fsf@nightsong.com> <670085384.547216974.759926.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <9d9da202-c60c-435b-9c79-a15642d1c55c@googlegroups.com> <3e5863ea-2a01-4dbd-943c-fea9e9790204@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: TKk5kT01+2w6guVcOjcsiQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 Content-Language: fr X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:52019 Date: 2018-05-05T23:44:11+02:00 List-Id: Le 05/05/2018 à 17:58, Lucretia a écrit : > AdaCore was "spun out of NYU" and I still have no clue how it became a French company. Around 1982, Philippe Kruchten was a professor at ENST (french engineering school), and had translated the (preliminary) ARM in French, so he had some connection with the people at NYU. He was invited to a sabbatical there. I was also professor at ENST, so after 6 months he pulled me there too. When we returned to France, the link was established, and we regularly sent professors for sabbatical and students as interns to NYU. Some of them were the ones who founded the French branch of AdaCore when they returned home... -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr