Getting my CS degree back in the 80s, we had a ‘Programming Landscape’ class where we got introduced to different languages with ADA being one. Even bought a book on ADA at the time.

Although in Ada we can allocate more memory as much as we want using the new keyword, one thing which the language doesn’t like you to do is deallocating it, akin to free or delete in C and C++.

The programming language Ada rose to 9th place in the TIOBE Programming Community Index in July, unseating the similarly venerable Fortran. Fortran’s drop to 12th place raises questions about ...