When was Ada programming language introduced?

Under the auspices of ISO, a further (minor) revision known as Ada 2005 was completed as an amendment to the standard. read more

Ada was originally designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull under contract to the United States Department of Defense (DoD) from 1977 to 1983 to supersede over 450 programming languages used by the DoD at that time. read more

The most recent version of the language standard is Ada 2012, which has introduced full support for contract-based programming (including subprogram pre- and postconditions) among other features. The name “Ada” is not an acronym; it was chosen in honor of Augusta Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), a mathematician who is sometimes regarded as the world’s first programmer because of her work with Charles Babbage. read more