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 languages ...

A major revision of the Ada programming language is under way, overseen by the International Organization for Standardization and scheduled to be unveiled this month at the Ada Europe Conference in ...

A year-old story about a programming language that fell out of favor 12 years ago takes the Web by storm. When one of the most popular stories of the week on our sister Web site, GCN.com, is about the ...

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 ...

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This article is part of the Embedded Software series: Ada for the Embedded C Developer and the TechXchange: Developing High Quality Software If you’re a C programmer, then you’ve probably heard about ...