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unusual facts about Ada programming language



Imperative programming

For the needs of the United States Department of Defense, Jean Ichbiah and a team at Honeywell began designing Ada in 1978, after a 4-year project to define the requirements for the language.

S/SL programming language

S/SL has been used to implement production commercial compilers for languages such as PL/I, Euclid, Turing, Ada, and COBOL, as well as interpreters, command processors, and domain specific languages of many kinds.


see also

Ravenscar

Ravenscar profile, a subset of the Ada programming language designed for safety-critical real-time computing