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Ada: Past, Present, Future. An Interview with Jean Ichiah, the Principal Designer of Ada (1984)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358274.358278
This is a great, tho, dated article, one thing remains timeless, Ada is still the only programming language to separate Requirements, and Design. Contrary to the old, and still contemporary hatred, fragile, and weak attacks against Ada, it was not designed by committee, the requirements were set out by one individual, and the design was the effort of many from various companies/institutions around the planet. This separation of concerns and implementation has yet to be duplicated, it's aim was to reduce programming language fragmentation, successful with Ada, not with the broader programming user community however. It is obvious, our community has a hatred for the work of those before us, and we have to yet again, create many similar programming languages.
Jun 01 · 2 weeks ago · 👍 norayr