Ada isn’t a well-known language to web-application developers. However, it has several strengths that makes the final application scalable, robust, and more secure than other languages. A web ...

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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 ...

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 ...

I’ve been a fan of Ada and SPARK for a while now, and really wished I had it available when I was programming full time. It’s been used in military and avionic applications where secure and safety ...

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 ...

Ada 95 added object-oriented programming capabilities, and Ada 2005 tamped down on security requirements even further. The language has also been ratified as a standard by the American National ...