ADA (Programming Language)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, wide- spectrum, and object-oriented high-level computer programming language, extended from Pascal and other languages. It was originally designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull under contract to the United States Department of Defense from 1977 to 1983 to supersede the hundreds of programming languages then used by the DoD. Ada is strongly typed and compilers are validated for reliability in mission-critical applications, such as avionics software. Ada is an international standard; the current version is defined by joint ISO/ANSI standard, combined with major Amendment.Ada was named after Ada Lovelace, who is often credited as being the first computer programmer.