ADA

Authors:
William A. Whitaker;Michael Feldman
Affiliations:
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Venue:
Encyclopedia of Computer Science
Year:
2003

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Rationale for the design of the Ada programming language

Rationale for the design of the Ada programming language
ADA---the project: the DoD high order language working group

History of programming languages---II

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Abstract

Ada was initiated for a utopian purpose, to supersede the hundreds of languages then in use in the US Department of Defense (DoD) for critical systems. It was the outcome of an engineering project initiated and technically managed at the Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering.