Its Ada Lovelace Day! Learn the Ada programming language in 2021

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 12, 2021 10:52 PM EDT
Opensource.com; By Seth Kenlon
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In the 1970s, many programming languages were hyperspecific to the hardware they controlled. As a result, developers had to learn to code differently depending on the hardware they were programming. Debugging and maintenance were highly specialized, and code wasn't reusable across machines. The UK government recognized these problems and moved toward establishing a standardized multipurpose programming language. On December 10, 1980—Ada Lovelace's birthday—they made the Ada programming language an official military standard in the UK.

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