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Ada

The word "Ada" is prominently displayed against a blurred background with warm orange and dark tones, suggesting a concept related to the programming language Ada.

A strongly typed programming language developed in the late 1970s for the United States Department of Defense, intended for safety-critical and real-time systems. Ada raises explicit exceptions on numeric overflow rather than silently wrapping, a feature designed to make bugs visible. On Ariane 5 it worked as designed: the overflow was caught, an exception raised, and the entire inertial system shut down in response.

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