Back in the days when Ada was young, nearly 40 years ago, I used it to write an interpreter. I also reported innumerable compiler bugs.
Ada really was "designed by committee", in the sense that it has taken ideas from every language paradigm out there. That is not a bad thing, since each of those features was integrated into the language, and not just tacked on as an afterthought.
I haven't used it since then. It's nice to see that the language has matured and stabilized. Also, the author lists a lot of features that - then - did not yet exist, so the language has continued to develop nicely. I might just have to go back and re-learn it, just for fun...
Ada really was "designed by committee", in the sense that it has taken ideas from every language paradigm out there. That is not a bad thing, since each of those features was integrated into the language, and not just tacked on as an afterthought.
I haven't used it since then. It's nice to see that the language has matured and stabilized. Also, the author lists a lot of features that - then - did not yet exist, so the language has continued to develop nicely. I might just have to go back and re-learn it, just for fun...