Re: Ada on punched cards?

[Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> 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...

Cool. What year was this?

Maybe this could go in a "history of Ada" page at AdaIC?

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