While a longtime dignitary in the technology space still is not convinced, advocates of the Ada programming language are touting benefits of an upgrade to the platform as well as their company’s ...

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 languages ...

Most embedded programming is done in C and C++. Many languages are used for embedded applications, from Java to Lua, but C dominates. C’s popularity is no surprise. It’s easy to learn, and every ...

VDC Research thinks Ada can help control software-development costs. The firm’s findings, including TCO calculations, reveal how that’s possible. Many myths surround the Ada programming language, but ...

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A major revision of the Ada programming language is under way, overseen by the International Organization for Standardization and scheduled to be unveiled this month at the Ada Europe Conference in ...

In the previous installment in this series we looked at how to set up an Ada development environment, and how to compile and run a simple Ada application. Building upon this foundation, we will now ...