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Ada, Past Present and Future

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  • Presented by Robert Dewar, co-founder of AdaCore
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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Programming languagesHistory and cultureLanguage design and type systemsHistory of computing

Robert Dewar discusses the history, design principles, and future of the Ada programming language in a lecture at MIT.

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What people say. Recommended for its insights into the Ada programming language and its history, as well as Robert Dewar's perspective on language design.

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On “Is Ada a failed language?”

Heres a lecture at MIT about Ada from a favorite programmer of mine. link to this video I do not understand the Medium authors definition of "success". I get similarly confused when web commentators use the term "won" (e.g., language X "won") when discussing programming languages. Won what? IMO, the presenter (RIP) was quite successful. Im sure Ada "won" many contracts.
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ajxson Hacker News • Mentions

On “Haskell, Ada, C++: An Experiment in Prototyping Productivity (1994) [pdf]”

…me I see it I can't help but think that it's a little disingenuous to conduct an apples to oranges comparison of languages on these particular merits. It's much more difficult to weigh up the relative investment of time necessary to write code that is equally robust, maintainable and fit for purpose. Here's the video I got the Dr Dewar quote from: link to this video…
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Rochuson Hacker News • Mentions

On “Ada, Past Present and Future”

I like this part about the Ada hype: link to this video Compare it to the hype around a current (intentionally corroded) language /s
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