From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
To: "Marco" <prenom_nomus@yahoo.com>, <comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>
Subject: RE: FYI - Lead Designer of Ada Dies
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:32:21 -0600
Date: 2007-02-12T21:35:02+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.96.1171312306.18371.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1171307154.271815.42450@a34g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
Marco writes:
> February 5, 2007 - Jean Ichbiah, creator of the Ada programming
> language, died on Jan. 26 due to complications from a brain tumor. He
> was 66. Ichbiah was the lead developer at CII Honeywell Bull in France
> when that company took on the task of creating a new programming
> language in 1977. Ichbiah and his team built Ada in order to secure a
> Department of Defense contract, and after the language was chosen,
> Ichbiah left CII Honeywell Bull to found an Ada-specific company,
> Alsys Corp. Ichbiah's legacy remains alive in Ada, which is still used
> today in some embedded and Defense Department projects.
An announcement of Ichbiah's death went out on the AdaIC announcement list
on January 29th. Instructions for subscribing to the announcement list can
be found at http://www.adaic.org/site/newslist.html.
Read an entire memorial to Jean Ichbiah at
http://www.adaic.org/news/ichbiah.html (this has been updated since we sent
out the announcements).
Randy Brukardt, webmaster, AdaIC.org/.com
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2007-02-12 19:05 FYI - Lead Designer of Ada Dies Marco
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