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Is Ada a popular programming language?
Ada remains an important programming language, as it’s still widely used in military and infrastructure applications, and is an example of how to make a language relatively secure while providing high-level features to utilize the specific attributes of the target hardware and OS.
What makes Cardano unique?
Its technology is advancing at rapid speed and looks to take on the likes of Ethereum in building a massive blockchain ecosystem. Cardano distinguishes itself by using mathematical principles in its consensus mechanism and a unique multi-layer architecture, which makes it stand out from other competing blockchains.
Why is ADA so good?
Cardano is a blockchain project with over 70\% of the total currency, ADA, staked for network validation (a really impressive rate). Some of Cardano’s key improvements are multiple processing layers for settlements and computations, proof of stake consensus and the ability to upgrade its network easily in the future.
What is the Ada language?
The Ada language is the result of the most extensive and most expensive language design effort ever undertaken. Up until 1974 half of the applications at The Department of Defense were embedded systems. An embedded system is one where the computer hardware is embedded in the device it controls.
Why Ada for embedded systems?
Instead, Ada was designed to be be a single language, capable of running on all of those embedded systems, that offered the same or better level of performance and reliability.
Where can I find a good introduction to Ada?
Introductions and references for the language itself are found as a simple introduction for Java and C++ developers (PDF), the AdaCore basic reference, a reference over at WikiBooks, and of course ‘ Programming in Ada 2012 ‘ in dead-tree format for those who like that little bit of extra heft.
How long does it take to learn Ada?
Just a small correction to a previous statement about the language: While Ada is a pain in the *** in the first month of usage, once you get adjusted to it (and actually, it takes less than a month for most), it becomes one of the fastest languages to develop in.