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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 ...

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 ...

Like C, Ada is a compiled language. This means that the compiler will parse the source code and emit machine code native to the target hardware. The Ada compiler we’ll be discussing in this course is ...

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 ...

In the previous installment in this series we looked at how to set up an Ada development environment, and how to compile and run a simple Ada application. Building upon this foundation, we will now ...

Ada support is now available on embedded ARM processors running Linux for safety critical code development. AdaCore has developed a cross-development environment for the latest 2012 version of the Ada ...

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 ...