Who invented Ada (enquiering minds demand to know)

Who invented Ada (enquiering minds demand to know)

[Eric Price]

	Howdy fellow Netranders,

    The other day a co worker and i were having a discussion about
    programming ranguages, inadvertenly the discussion turned to 
    the topic of Ada. My buddy said that Ada was designed by somone
    in Europe. Not beeing an Ada proglammer (I've never coded even
    one single line of the stuff, I'm a C hack) I would like to 
    know the answer to this nagging question "who actually invented
    Ada" once again enquiering minds demand to know. Oh BTW I know 
    all about Augustine Lovelace and Charles Babbage.

				Jillions of Thanx,

				elmoe (with the umlatz) schvartzenblattz
   
AKA	eric gene "ahl do enny thin fer money (even proglam) price

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Re: Who invented Ada (enquiering minds demand to know)

[Rosa Weber]

>    ...    My buddy said that Ada was designed by somone
>    in Europe. Not beeing an Ada proglammer (I've never coded even
>    one single line of the stuff, I'm a C hack) I would like to 
>    know the answer to this nagging question "who actually invented
>    Ada"

     In May 1979 Ada became the official name for the high-order
     language of the Department of Defense.  At this time the DoD
     also announced that Honeywell/France was the winning contractor
     of the design competition.  The principal author of Ada was
     Jean Ichbiah from France but other members of the design team
     included citizens from the U.S., the U.K., and West Germany.

     Source : "Software Engineering with Ada", by Grady Booch.