brett@tle.enet.dec.com (Bevin) (06/23/91)
In article <19165.677533889@osprey>, munck@STARS.RESTON.UNISYS.COM (Bob Munck) writes... >Gee, when I interviewed with the DEC team doing the Ada compiler, about >half -- Ike Nassi, Larry Shaffer, Earl Van Horn -- were former >SofTechers. Earl probably left before the DOD-1 work got started at >SofTech, but not Ike or Larry. I think Ike is now running an Apple >research center in Maryland and Larry is a member of the Intermetrics >Ada-9X group. > >Bob Munck Ah, my mistake, I was actually thinking of the second wave of people from SofTech. Even so, the major architects of the VAX Ada V1.0 compiler were not SofTech people, they were either long-term DECcies [Ron Brender, Charlie Mitchell, Rich Grove] or new arrivals in both DEC and the Ada community [Ian Stocks and myself]. I don't know how to parcel out the runtime system's final design between Ike Nassi and Bob Conti. Even though I have been on the VAX Ada team since '82, Larry had already left by then; Earl's name does not ring any bells at all (I'll hve to mention it over coffee and find out if there is a whole area of ancient history I don't know about). /Bevin