Ada, a 45-year-old programming language, might just solve the very problems developers have been grappling with for years.

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 ...

The new Ada 2012 standard was recently approved by ISO. It incorporates contracts that will have a major impact on application design. The relationship of a software developer to his or her ...

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 ...

There's more to safer systems languages than Rust If you're looking for a Unix-like, POSIX-compatible, real-time kernel, ...

Writing code without having some way to easily organize sets of variables or data would be a real bother. Even if in the end you could totally do all of the shuffling of bits and allocating in memory ...

The Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) gave me the opportunity to learn about new software products and technologies. Here's a roundup of several interesting announcements: Java with Concurrent ...

This special series focuses on important community issues, innovative solutions to societal challenges, and people and non-profit groups making an impact through technology. by Taylor Soper on Jan 22, ...