The Ada programming language was born in the mid-1970s, when the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the UK’s Ministry Of Defence sought to replace the hundreds of specialized programming languages ...

Ada is a general-purpose language, like C++ or Java, supporting the usual features of modern programming languages, such as data encapsulation, object orientation, templates (called “generics”), ...

In the previous installment in this series we looked at how to set up an Ada development environment, and how to compile and run a simple Ada application. Building upon this foundation, we will now ...

GNAT Programming Studio (GPS) 3.0 supports Ada, C, C++, and a wide range of native and cross-development platforms, including Unix, Windows, and GNU/Linux. GPS provides an intuitive, unified visual ...

The new Ada 2012 standard was recently approved by ISO. It incorporates contracts that will have a major impact on application design. The relationship of a software developer to his or her ...

The most recent version of the Ada standard, Ada 2012, supports contract-based programming (pre- and postconditions for subprograms), which in effect embeds the software’s low-level requirements as ...