Preliminary Ada reference manual
ACM SIGPLAN Notices - Preliminary Ada reference manual
Why Ada is not just another programming language
Communications of the ACM
Ada—the project: the DoD high order language working group
HOPL-II The second ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages
PDL/Ada—a design language based on Ada
ACM '81 Proceedings of the ACM '81 conference
PDL/Ada: a design language based on Ada
ACM SIGAda Ada Letters
The potential effect of Ada on software engineering in the 1980's
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
ADA---the project: the DoD high order language working group
History of programming languages---II
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The Ada programming language was finalized in July 1980 with the publication of the proposed standard Ada Language Reference Manual [A1]. That standard document is being reviewed for clarity and internal consistency under American National Standards Institute (ANSI) canvas procedures in preparation for the issuance of an ANSI Standard for Ada. Ada is also on the agenda of the International Standards Organization (ISO). The United States Department of Defense (DoD) has sponsored the development of Ada to provide a standard machine independent high order language (HOL) for software which is embedded in or procured as part of major defense systems. Examples of the intended applications include communications, avionics, air traffic control, missile guidance, and battlefield or shipboard decision support. Computers are usually dedicated to these applications. Frequently, they must operate in unfriendly environments, and are specially hardened to withstand shocks, vibrations, temperature fluctuations and other environmental stresses. DoD's annual investment for software to run on these embedded computers far exceeds that for data processing applications such as payroll, inventory and financial management [C3].