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 lang… ...

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++.

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Embedded systems demand safe, reliable code and explores how Ada, SPARK, and Rust are shaping the future of memory-safe ...

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 ...

A manuscript written by Ada Lovelace, who's considered by many to be the first computer programmer, was just sold at auction for more than $125,000, the Guardian reports. A first edition and just ...

A book written 175 years ago by the world’s first computer programmer has just sold for £114,000 after being found in a box of junk. Only six copies of the 50-page “Sketch of the Analytical ...

Ada and SPARK are programming languages that are especially applicable in systems demanding high confidence in software reliability, safety, and security. Ada is a general-purpose language, like ...