Hendrik Boom said on Sat, 17 Aug 2024 09:32:30 -0400

>If my memory is still good, the first certified ADA compiler was
>written by a friend ot mine, Robert Dewar.

It's a small world, Hendrik. At Illinois Institute of Technology in 1970
I had to drop Dr. Dewar's assembler class because I couldn't understand
indirect addressing, double indirect addressing, or stacks. Keep in
mind I was only 20 and was smoking weed every other day and drinking
the other days, and I figured I'd get shot dead in a rice paddy in
Vietnam so I didn't give a flying flamingo anyway. Here's an article on
Dr. Dewar:

https://www.iit.edu/news/iit-computer-science-pioneer-robert-bk-dewar-passes-away

I knew a lot of the people mentioned in the article: Jeffrey Friedman,
Harley Michelson, Bill Schoen, and Joel Krauss. Not mentioned in the
article was a guy named Allen Kapusta, who was the smartest guy in the
assembly language class.

SteveT

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