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Ada education is a moving target

Ada education is a moving target Ada* Education Is A Moving Ta 'rue t By Edward V . Berard * W 'To put it quite bluntly : as long as there were n o machines, programming was no problem at all ; whe n we had a few weak computers, programming was a mil d problem, and now we have gigantic computers , programming has become an equally gigantic problem . ' -- E .W . Ici,jKstr a (from CDi,j}stra, 19723 ) Programming, as it is practiced in most American companies today, has remaine d virtually unchanged for at least twenty years . In 1964, programmers wer e developing applications by writing :Line after line of FORTRAN, COBOL, o r assembly language statements . They would then go through several compilation s to 'check for syntax errors,' followed by possibly many more compilations t o 'get the bugs out .' Testing meant running the program a few times with som e sample data, 'to make sure that it worked right .' Quality assurance technique s for software production were not part of the typical programmer's repertoire . Unfortunately, with the introduction of CRT terminals and interactive softwar e development capabilities, we seem to have http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM SIGAda Ada Letters Association for Computing Machinery

Ada education is a moving target

ACM SIGAda Ada Letters , Volume IV (1) – Jul 1, 1984

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Association for Computing Machinery
Copyright
Copyright © 1984 by ACM Inc.
ISSN
1094-3641
DOI
10.1145/998401.998404
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Abstract

Ada* Education Is A Moving Ta 'rue t By Edward V . Berard * W 'To put it quite bluntly : as long as there were n o machines, programming was no problem at all ; whe n we had a few weak computers, programming was a mil d problem, and now we have gigantic computers , programming has become an equally gigantic problem . ' -- E .W . Ici,jKstr a (from CDi,j}stra, 19723 ) Programming, as it is practiced in most American companies today, has remaine d virtually unchanged for at least twenty years . In 1964, programmers wer e developing applications by writing :Line after line of FORTRAN, COBOL, o r assembly language statements . They would then go through several compilation s to 'check for syntax errors,' followed by possibly many more compilations t o 'get the bugs out .' Testing meant running the program a few times with som e sample data, 'to make sure that it worked right .' Quality assurance technique s for software production were not part of the typical programmer's repertoire . Unfortunately, with the introduction of CRT terminals and interactive softwar e development capabilities, we seem to have

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ACM SIGAda Ada LettersAssociation for Computing Machinery

Published: Jul 1, 1984

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