Ada Programming Language Profile

Ada

Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, wide-spectrum, multi-paradigm, object-oriented high-level, ALGOL-like programming language, extended from Pascal and other languages. The language was developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Ada is named after Augusta Ada Byron (often now known as Ada Lovelace), daughter of the poet Lord Byron.

Ada has built-in language support for explicit concurrency, offering tasks, synchronous message passing, protected objects, and non-determinism. Ada incorporates the benefits of object-oriented languages without incurring the pervasive overheads.

FACTS

Type of Language: Multi-paradigm: structured, statically typed, imperative, wide-spectrum, object-oriented
Designed by: John McCarthy
Public Release: 1980
License: –
Website: www.adaic.org

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