Ada (programming language) Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, and object-oriented high-level computer programming language based on Pascal. It was originally designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull under contract to the United States Department of Defense during 1977–1983 to supersede the hundreds of programming languages then used by the US Department of Defense (DoD). Ada_(programming_language)
Jean Ichbiah Jean David Ichbiah (25 March 1940 – 26 January, 2007) was a French-born computer scientist and the chief designer (from 1977–1983) of Ada, a general-purpose, strongly-typed programming language with certified validated compilers. Jean_Ichbiah
Alsys The company Alsys, SA. (founded 1980, merged 1995) was a software development company created to support initial work on the Ada programming language. Alsys