Proceedings of the ADA Debut, Washington, DC, 4-5 September 1980

摘要

Military systems of the future will incorporate much more flexible and intelligent control logic. For example, new surveillance systems will have sophisticated algorithms for detecting, identifying, and locating targets; command and control systems will be able to pass target information to fire units very rapidly, essentially in real-time. We will have even more capable precision guided weapons than we have today. We will also be upgrading existing tanks, aircraft and other weapons with intelligent digital control systems to extend their useful life. Thus, the Ada program has been an effort to provide a high quality common programming language for these critically important military systems of the future. In summary, we would like to emphasize that the Ada language is extremely important to the U.S. Department of Defense and the Western Alliance. In our opinion, Ada will be used to develop our most important systems in the future. We expect Ada will be widely used throughout the U.S. and the European countries for commercial use as well as defense software, and that the Department of Defense in the U.S. will benefit significantly from the resulting availability of trained personnel and privately developed software.