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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3a6b5ac66a4ad20e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-01 19:21:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada on punched cards? Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 21:22:40 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3719.2500 X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21973 Date: 2002-04-01T21:22:40-06:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake wrote in message ... >Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever written an Ada program on >punched cards? > >And if you have to ask "what's a punched card", you don't want to know >:). > >Punched cards disappeared from the machines I had access to before >1983, so I doubt it. But the topic came up recently, and I figured >that's a perfect question for this group! The very first version of Janus/Ada was created as the homework for the compiler construction course (CS 701) at the University of Wisconsin. The host machine was a Univac 1100/80. While we did most of the work at the recently installed terminals, we did do some things on punched cards. (The machine "charged" for each run, and batch runs were "cheaper", so we could stretch out our "funds" by using cards.) The coding was in an extended Pascal (which we later machine-translated to Ada). But of course the test programs were written in Ada, and we often ran test batches on cards. So, I suppose the answer is yes, but there never were any real programs on the cards. And in any case, there was an early Ada compiler on cards... Randy Brukardt.