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