The Ada programming language was born in the mid-1970s, when the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the UK’s Ministry Of Defence sought to replace the hundreds of specialized programming lang… ...

Getting my CS degree back in the 80s, we had a ‘Programming Landscape’ class where we got introduced to different languages with ADA being one. Even bought a book on ADA at the time.

Many myths surround the Ada programming language, but it continues to be used and evolve at the same time. And while the increased adoption of Ada and SPARK, its provable subset, is slow, it’s ...

Ada is a general-purpose language, like C++ or Java, supporting the usual features of modern programming languages, such as data encapsulation, object orientation, templates (called “generics ...

The merger between New York-based AdaCore and Washington D.C.-area CodeSecure fills a strategic gap in static analysis for C ...

Language revision adds contract-based programming, multicore support and other features … continue reading ...

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has approved Ada 2012, the latest version of the technical workhorse programming language.

Lovelace's name was also adopted for the Ada programming language, which first appeared in 1980, with inspiration drawn from the likes of Pascal.

Ada 2012, an upgrade to language due later this year, will feature contract capabilities, multicore programming accommodations, iterators, and quantified expressions, said Ed Schonberg, vice ...

Jean Ichbiah, best known as the inventor of the Ada programming language, died Jan. 26, at age 66 of a brain tumor. According to one online eulogy, “Ichbiah’s main appearance under the ...