Writing code without having some way to easily organize sets of variables or data would be a real bother. Even if in the end you could totally do all of the shuffling of bits and allocating in memory ...

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 ...

Ada is a general-purpose language, like C++ or Java, supporting the usual features of modern programming languages, such as data encapsulation, object orientation, templates (called “generics”), ...

Ada is a programming language with a long history designed to support high quality software development especially for safety and secure applications such as avionics. SPARK is a version of Ada that ...

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 ...

This special series focuses on important community issues, innovative solutions to societal challenges, and people and non-profit groups making an impact through technology. by Taylor Soper on Jan 22, ...