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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 27 , Issue 10 (October 1984) table of contents

Pages: 990 - 997

Year of Publication: 1984

ISSN:0001-0782

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Jean Ichbiah

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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Downloads (6 Weeks): 2, Downloads (12 Months): 21, Citation Count: 6

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ABSTRACT

Since the mid-1970s, the U.S. Department of Defense has been laying the groundwork for a major new computer language that may substantially displace FORTRAN and COBOL in the years ahead. With Ada just now starting to be used, Communications felt it would be timely to conduct an interview with Jean Ichbiah, the principal designer of this new language. Ichbiah discusses the evolution of Ada, evaluates its success so far, and speculates on its future.

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	1	Grady Booch, Software engineering with Ada, Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Co., Inc., Redwood City, CA, 1983
	2	Edsger W. Dijkstra, Letters to the editor: go to statement considered harmful, Communications of the ACM, v.11 n.3, p.147-148, March 1968 [doi>10.1145/362929.362947]
	3	Charles Antony Richard Hoare, The emperor's old clothes, Communications of the ACM, v.24 n.2, p.75-83, Feb. 1981 [doi>10.1145/358549.358561]
	4	Requirements for high-order programming languages. IRONMAN. United States Department of Defense, Washington, D.C., Jan. 1977.

CITED BY 6

	Naomi S. Baron, The future of computer languages: implications for education, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.18 n.1, p.44-49, February 1986
	Howard Evans , Wayne Patterson, Implementing Ada as the primary programming language, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.17 n.1, p.255-265, Mar. 1985
	Trong Wu, Design of a test plan and its test cases for a translator, Proceedings of the 1988 ACM sixteenth annual conference on Computer science, p.715, February 1988, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
	Peter van der Linden, Looking forward with Ada, ACM SIGAda Ada Letters, v.V n.1, p.49-54, July/August 1985
	Alan A. Goerner, The impact of Ada on software project organization, Proceedings of the second annual Washington Ada symposium on Ada: Ada in the mainstream: applications and education, p.113-119, March 1985, Washington, D. C., United States
	Jean E. Sammet, Why Ada is not just another programming language, Communications of the ACM, v.29 n.8, p.722-732, Aug. 1986