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What is Ada?

Apr 3rd, 2000 10:59
John Cupak, Knud van Eeden,

Ada is a programing language designed to support the construction of 
long-lived, highly reliable software systems. The language includes 
facilities to define packages of related types, objects, and operations.

The language includes a complete facility for the support of real-time, 
concurrent programming. Errors can be signaled as exceptions and handled 
explicitly. The language also covers systems programming. A predefined 
environment of standard packages is provided, including facilities for, 
among others, input-output, string manipulation, numeric elementary 
functions, and random number generation.

(taken from ISO/IEC 8652:1995(R) - RM95;6.0, Section 1: General)