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 ...

C++11 and Ada 2012 are the latest incarnations of C++ and Ada programming languages. Quentin Ochem delves into the similarities and differences of some new features in each language.

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

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 ...

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

Legacy programming languages, once thought to be relics of the past, are having a surprising comeback. This month, Fortran, Ada, COBOL, and Delphi all vying for positions in the TIOBE Index top 20 ...