"GW-Ada/Ed-Mac is a development environment built around the New York University (NYU) AdaEd compiler/interpreter. It allows the editing, compiling, binding and execution of Ada 83 programs. GW-Ada/Ed-Mac was supervised by Prof. Michael B. Feldman. Manuel A. Perez, a GWU doctoral student in Computer Science, is responsible for the Macintosh version, including the editor and developer shell. We are finishing a good user manual; in the meantime, please bear with this sketchy version. We think the system will be fun to use and as easy to work with as most Mac programs are."
"This is a compiler/interpreter for a part of the Ada language, namely the "Pascal subset" plus the Ada tasking support. It is not intended ever to be a full Ada compiler, rather a vehicle for teaching, learning, and experimenting with concurrent programming. The compiler is very fast, producing P-code which is then interpreted by the interpreter. The interpreter is sometimes frustratingly slow; we've done no optimization at all yet."
The Ada programming language was originally christened "DoD-1" by the general press. DoD's High Order Language Working Group (HOLWG), however, never accepted that name, fearing its military overtones might prejudice nonmilitary users against it.
In 1979, Jack Cooper of the Navy Materiel Command thought of naming the language "Ada", which was widely accepted by the HOLWG. The name honors Countess Augusta Ada Lovelace, a mathematician and the only legitimate daughter of poet Lord Byron. While in her twenties, she worked with Charles Babbage on his Difference Engine and thus is considered the world's first computer programmer.
The language's name, Ada, was chosen and named for the mathematician Lady Augusta Ada Byron (1815-1852), Countess of Lovelace and daughter of the poet Lord Byron. She worked with Charles Babbage, who had created a "difference engine" that could be "programmed" much like the Jacquard loom.
