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What Was Your First Programming Language?
07-07-2015, 07:53 PM
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RE: What Was Your First Programming Language?
One of the problems with Ada back in those days was the fact that the compiler itself was new and largely untested, so any project that wanted to use the compiler would be a guinea-pig for testing it, in addition to testing the project-specific requirements of course. I don't think the planners recognized that until it was too late.

The words that come to mind when I remember those Ada days are "crash" and "memory leak."

When I began programming in 1974 using FORTRAN V on the Univac 1108 at the Census Bureau, that old compiler was well-tested and previously used by many programmers and installations over several years. Any errors that came up during testing were assuredly mine, not the compiler's. The Ada developers years later were in a different situation.

There is a lot to be said for sticking with the "tried and true."
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RE: What Was Your First Programming Language? - Don Shepherd - 07-07-2015 07:53 PM



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