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The only thing I remember about Ada is that it introduced exceptions (or maybe was one of the languages that spread it). Useful little tidbit since I like to keep a mental picture of what languages roughly influenced other languages. +it has a military/secure programming background (and thus is inherently friendly towards proving/verification) It was fairly widespread in Austria for a while (90s).

Never really used it and kind of expected it to be dead or only used in specific old systems. Interesting to see that there's a new version (I have to admit I'm still stuck on 95 and missed 2007 completely).

Edit: I think SAP generates roughly 1/3 of all European software revenue so that's already pretty major. Germany has always hovered around 50% of the European software market (last time I checked was a couple of years ago)




Exceptions were already in CLU and Mesa (70's), among others.




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