He did various labouring jobs until settling down in 1989 as a self-employed subcontracting gardener for a local firm based at Ravenscar, North Yorkshire.
Ravenscar profile, a subset of the Ada programming language designed for safety-critical real-time computing
It has been named after the English village of Ravenscar, the location of the 8th International Real-Time Ada Workshop (IRTAW 8).
The name of the village is featured in a double episode (The Swords of Wayland) of the 1980s television show, Robin of Sherwood, although the actual filming locations for Ravenscar, as featured in the episodes, were in Cornwall and Somerset.
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