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: 2002-04-02 10:35:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!skates!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada on punched cards? Date: 02 Apr 2002 13:23:13 -0500 Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (skates.gsfc.nasa.gov) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: anarres.gsfc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: skates.gsfc.nasa.gov 1017772118 18871 128.183.220.71 (2 Apr 2002 18:28:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.gsfc.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Apr 2002 18:28:38 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22012 Date: 2002-04-02T18:28:38+00:00 List-Id: "Randy Brukardt" 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? -- -- Stephe