“Ada 2012 is the logical next step along Ada’s trailblazing path toward supporting high-integrity programming,” said S. Tucker Taft, director of language research at AdaCore.

Within Ada an advocated approach has been to use protected objects and barriers within entries, which provides language-level synchronization between tasks.

What we do notice here is that Ada’s multi-threading features are very different from that found in other mainstream languages which overwhelmingly follow the POSIX pthread model.

Lovelace's name was also adopted for the Ada programming language, which first appeared in 1980, with inspiration drawn from the likes of Pascal. While niche compared to popular modern languages ...