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Ada 83 to Ada 2012: lessons learned over 30 years of language design

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This presentation will comprise a discussion between two language designers, John Barnes and Tucker Taft, who have been intimately involved with the design of Ada over the past 30 years. During the discussion they will review the successful and less than completely successful features of the various versions of Ada, going from the original Ada 83, through the latest Ada 2012 version, and will attempt to identify some lessons to be learned about programming language design and evolution.

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              cover image ACM SIGAda Ada Letters
              ACM SIGAda Ada Letters  Volume 34, Issue 3
              HILT '14
              December 2014
              93 pages
              ISSN:1094-3641
              DOI:10.1145/2692956
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                HILT '14: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGAda annual conference on High integrity language technology
                October 2014
                116 pages
                ISBN:9781450332170
                DOI:10.1145/2663171

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