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From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney)
Subject: Re: History of ADA?
Date: 1997/10/05
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Date: 1997-10-05T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <3437CB1D.23D@udel.edu>, Uday Ivaturi <uivaturi@udel.edu> wrote:


>            Sorry for intruding with this un-computerish question, but I
>am looking for some info on the history of ADA. I looked on the Web, the
>FAQ for this Ng, but it didn't seem like they addressed that topic.
>Would someone care to enlighten me on this: When was ADA created? BY
>whom, Where? etc. My e-mail is arun_at_udel.edu.  I would realy
>appreciate any help.

Ada is not an acronym - it was named after a woman, Lady Ada Lovelace, the
first programmer.  Ada the woman has a very colorful history too!

See the Ada home page 

<http://www.adahome.com>

and the Ada Information Clearinghouse

<http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/AdaIC>

 for the info you're looking for. 

There's a paper about the history of the language at 

<http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/AdaIC/pol-hist/history/histada.txt>

Also, Bill Whitacker wrote a paper which appears in the History Of
Programming Languages II.

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