eprice@sagpd1.UUCP (Eric Price) (06/24/89)
Howdy fellow Netranders, The other day a co worker and i were having a discussion about programming ranguages, inadvertenly the discussion turned to the topic of Ada. My buddy said that Ada was designed by somone in Europe. Not beeing an Ada proglammer (I've never coded even one single line of the stuff, I'm a C hack) I would like to know the answer to this nagging question "who actually invented Ada" once again enquiering minds demand to know. Oh BTW I know all about Augustine Lovelace and Charles Babbage. Jillions of Thanx, elmoe (with the umlatz) schvartzenblattz AKA eric gene "ahl do enny thin fer money (even proglam) price #include "stdisclaimer.h" #define stupidity "it's like hydrogen" /* the most abundant element in the universe */
weber@ellington.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Rosa Weber) (06/24/89)
> ... My buddy said that Ada was designed by somone > in Europe. Not beeing an Ada proglammer (I've never coded even > one single line of the stuff, I'm a C hack) I would like to > know the answer to this nagging question "who actually invented > Ada" In May 1979 Ada became the official name for the high-order language of the Department of Defense. At this time the DoD also announced that Honeywell/France was the winning contractor of the design competition. The principal author of Ada was Jean Ichbiah from France but other members of the design team included citizens from the U.S., the U.K., and West Germany. Source : "Software Engineering with Ada", by Grady Booch.