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March 24, 2009

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dave shields

Danese,

The Ada programming language is named in her honor. I was on the team that built the world's first validated Ada compiler, when I was at NYU. I also did the port to the IBM PC.

Ada's mentor Charles Babbage, the inventor of the Analytical Engine, was also the inventor of the cow-catcher.

I see you are named afer an Alfa-Romeo. During my SPITBOL days I worked with someone whose name I have forgotten. All I remember is that he went from Amdahl to Sun, was one of Sun's earliest employees, and that he drove an Alfa-Romeo. Do you know his name? I would love to get in touch with him, for I'm doing some work on SPITBOL these days, the first time I have done so since 1983, and I expect he would be interested.

thanks,dave

dave shields

Danese,

I am forming my a Summer of Code in honor of the late Jack Schwartz, my friend, colleague and thesis advisor. I will be working with students from the age of 12 to 21. So far they are all male and I would to correct that imbalance, so any help on your part would be appreciated. We are, among other things, going to build a Python compiler from scratch that, I am confident, will result in a runtime that will be at least five times faster than CPython.

thanks,dave

Fran Allen is also a lifelong friend, so I take it as a given that you are involved with the Systers. I knew Anita Borg, the woman in whose honor it was founded, when she was a grad student at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

thanks,dave

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