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Many Adaists began during this week to express sadness over Simon J. 
Wright's death but following hyperlinks via a first hyperlink on that 
Discourse Ada-forum webpage from May 29th, 2025 gives the notion that he 
died before April 3rd, 2025.

I noticed no alert on Team Ada and USENET and that Discourse Ada forum 
that Ms. Charlene Roberts-Hayden died on May 11th, 2025. Cf. Bryan 
Marquard, "Charlene Roberts-Hayden, pioneering Black woman in computer 
programming, dies at 86", "The Boston Globe",
HTTPS://WWW.BostonGlobe.com/2025/05/18/metro/charlene-roberts-hayden-computer-programming-pioneer-passes-away
which David Emery hyperlinks to from the LinkedIn group that is called Ada 
Programming Language since circa May 31st, 2025.

She wrote to Hal Hart via Team Ada in 1997:
"Hal,

 I strongly agree with your comments.  I know here in the Boston area,
on various committees I participate on, I have heard nothing but
distress and regret  from the proponents of Ada who know the worth of
the only highly reliable HOL in existence today,  and sarcasm from Ada's
opponents, "even the DoD has given up on Ada".  I think that without the
Ada mandate, given the popular, existing languages unreliability and the
software explosion far surpassing that of the 1980's,  the DoD is headed
for an even more catastrophic software revolution than that which
preceded and was the impetus for the Ada language."