Hi Alain,

Niklaus E. Wirth a Swiss computer scientist was the chief designer of the
programming languages Algol W, Pascal, Modula, Modula-2, and Oberon.

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Jean Ichbiah (Members of the French Academy of Sciences) was the chief
designer of the ADA programming language, from 1977–1983. At the time,
he was a member of the Programming Research division at CII Honeywell
Bull (CII-HB) in Louveciennes, France.


Famous code written in ADA:
http://www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/ariane.html

http://www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de/publ...riane5rep.html

Best regards,

Luciano