THE LIVING ARCHIVE

From punched cards to autonomous collaborators: the ideas, people, languages and systems that taught machines to follow—and increasingly interpret—human intent.

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Ada and the DoD’s Attempt to Standardize a Language for Embedded Systems

Ada was the U.S. Department of Defense's ambitious attempt to replace a proliferation of embedded-system languages with one strongly typed, standardized language designed for large, long-lived real-time software.

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