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Ada: Young, Smart and Evolving

Alfred Strohmeier
1993
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The Ada language is now 10 years old, like SI and SI-Information. A free compiler, called GNAT, will soon be available from the Free Software Foundation (GNU). Ada is heavily used in high-tech applications. After 10 years, it was felt Ada should be revised. This revision is well on its way, and we describe here the structure of the revised language definition, as well as an overview of the object-oriented features of the language.

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Alfred Strohmeier
1993
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Ada (programming language)

Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, and object-oriented high-level programming language, inspired by Pascal and other languages. It has built-in language support for design by contract (DbC), extremely strong typing, explicit concurrency, tasks, synchronous message passing, protected objects, and non-determinism. Ada improves code safety and maintainability by using the compiler to find errors in favor of runtime errors.

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Free software

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