Ada Language

What is Ada

"Ada is a programming language that encourages modern software engineering principles, and it is mainly used for safety-critical applications like airplanes, missile control systems, nuclear plants among others."

The Department of Defense(DOD) developed ADA in the 1970s to improve the quality of software applications.

"Ada encourages good programming practices by incorporating software engineering principles with strong typing, modularity, portability, reusability and readability..."[1]

"Is an Internationally standardized, general purpose programming language used in a wide variety of applications..." [1]

Ada Past, Present and Future

Below is a link to 4 videos of a lecture by professor Rober Dewar (biography), given at MIT.

If you are familiar with programming languages you will enjoy these videos- Lecture by professor Robert Dewar - 4 videos (quicktime)

Abstract:

Robert B. K. Dewar is a professor at NYU, President of AdaCore, and one of the early figures in the development of Ada. In this lecture given at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr. Dewar gives an overview of the history of Ada, which includes the motivation for its conception, the story of its development, and the role Ada plays in present day programming. The lecture also covers the fundamental ideas behind Ada, its influence on other languages, and the truths and myths associated with the language.