The Ada programming language is designed for embedded systems, safety-critical software, and large projects that require portability and maintainability. For example, over 99 percent of the aviation software in the Boeing 777 is in Ada. Not surprisingly, Ada was the first object-oriented design programming language to be accepted as an International Standard.

The language is named after Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace, who was the first published computer programmer and daughter of the poet Lord Byron.

The Ada Information Clearinghouse has served a community of software engineers, managers, and programmers for over fifteen years. The Web site provides articles on Ada applications, databases of available compilers, current job offerings, and more.

The AdaIC is managed by the Ada Resource Association (ARA), a group of software tool vendors that supports the use of Ada for excellence in software engineering.

Ada has kept its promise made over twenty years ago to save lifecycle costs from planning software to updating legacy systems. Easily reused and maintained, readable and user friendly, Ada code facilitates such massive software projects as the Space Station and the Paris Metro. It has proven to be extraordinarily robust in decades' worth of daily field tests under the most rigorous conditions in which millions of lives have been at stake. The language dominates air transport and subways and runs everything from video security systems to pollution monitoring devices.

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