* Who invented Ada (enquiering minds demand to know)
@ 1989-06-23 18:32 Eric Price
1989-06-23 22:56 ` Rosa Weber
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From: Eric Price @ 1989-06-23 18:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
#include "stdisclaimer.h"
#define stupidity "it's like hydrogen"
/* the most abundant element in the universe */
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* Re: Who invented Ada (enquiering minds demand to know)
1989-06-23 18:32 Who invented Ada (enquiering minds demand to know) Eric Price
@ 1989-06-23 22:56 ` Rosa Weber
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From: Rosa Weber @ 1989-06-23 22:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
> ... 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.
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