The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has approved Ada 2012, the latest version of the technical workhorse programming language.

Many myths surround the Ada programming language, but it continues to be used and evolve at the same time. And while the increased adoption of Ada and SPARK, its provable subset, is slow, it’s ...

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 ...

Ada 2012, an upgrade to language due later this year, will feature contract capabilities, multicore programming accommodations, iterators, and quantified expressions, said Ed Schonberg, vice ...

“Ada 2012 is a major advance in the state of the art in programming languages,” said Dr. Edmond Schonberg, Rapporteur of the ARG.

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 ...

Ada 95 added object-oriented programming capabilities, and Ada 2005 tamped down on security requirements even further. The language has also been ratified as a standard by the American National ...

The Ada language can be used to give students an understanding of how to map a problem directly to a corresponding solution. Ada has powerful built-in typing capabilities, separation of specification ...

Adacore working with NVIDIA to implement Ada and SPARK programming languages to enhance select security-critical firmware.