Programming languages
Ada
Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, and object-oriented high-level programming language, extended from Pascal and other languages. It is designed for development of very large software systems. Ada was named after Ada Lovelace, who is credited as the first computer programmer.
- Created by
- Jean Ichbiah , CII Honeywell Bull , United States Department of Defense
- First appeared
- 1980
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Your first program
Hello, World!
with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
procedure Hello is
begin
Put_Line("Hello, World!");
end Hello;Keep learning
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