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@natecull @tomasino

It was the language we used for assignments in my 2A Computer Science course ("really just an introduction to Unix"). There was only one computer with an Ada compiler on it, a 68k-based SUN server shared among about 100 students.

The compiler was... not fast. And with 100 users, many of whom ^Z'd instead of ^C'ing, things were less good.

Long story short, this was how I learned vi, the power of NFS, and USENET.