On Fri, Apr 03, 2026 at 03:27:40PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:

>
>     Never heard of Ironman.

The design of Ada was done in a series of a requirements
documents. The first such was called Straw Man.
I believe Ironman was the last requirements document before
the actual developent of Ada.

> AFAIK, Ada was inspired from Pascal, itself
> inspired from Algol.

Its *syntax* was inspired from Pascal.
Its semantics was inspired by security constraints.

-- hendrik