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TeleSoft got off to a fast start in the Ada compiler market, releasing its first product in May 1981, well before the new language standard became final. TeleSoft had thus put out the first commercially available Ada compiler. Bowles took an-earlier-than-usual status as an emeritus professor at
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to form an entity known as
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programming were not seen as such by the general software engineering community or by educators. By the late 1980s, TeleSoft had suffered two rounds of layoffs. Still privately held, in 1988 it reportedly had revenue of $ 18 million and some 235 employees.
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