Raphaël Amiard, Gustavo A. Hoffmann. Introduction to Ada Release 2025-05. , , 2025.

In the 1970s the United States Department of Defense (DOD) suffered from an explosion of the number of programming languages, with different projects using different and non-standard dialects or language subsets / supersets. The DOD decided to solve this problem by issuing a request for proposals for a common, modern programming language. The winning proposal was one submitted by Jean Ichbiah from CII Honeywell-Bull. The first Ada standard was issued in 1983; it was subsequently revised and enhanced in 1995, 2005 and 2012, with each revision bringing useful new features. This tutorial will focus on Ada 2012 as a whole, rather than teaching different versions of the language.