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 ...

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This article is part of Now and Then and Ada and SPARK. The International Organization for Standardization recently approved the latest revision of Ada, known as Ada 2012, close to 30 years after the ...

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”), ...

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 ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Software development continues to be a major source of revenue and growth for businesses of all sizes. The international market for software is currently worth more than $7.5 billion—and is predicted ...

The increased adoption of embedded Linux within the general consumer electronics market gives rise to new areas of application development for embedded Linux outside the usual realm of PDAs and mobile ...