http://www.iment.com/maida/computer/redref/index.htm
After the contest, I started Ada LETTERS and the AdaTEC organization. I was chair of Programming Languages and pulled AdaTEC into that organization eventually. I was also the consultant to Time/Life’s Programming Languages book and the best thing I think I’ve done with my life was spend the time telling them about Bill Whitaker, who came up with the idea and thought everyone would forget him. When the book came out I called him and read him all the sections about him and told him that now he’d never be forgotten. I remember a medal he had on his chest (AF) that he explained was for the calculations done so that when you dropped a nuclear bomb, you could get the plane the heck out of there. Absolutely lovely man.
And to me, ADA always looked like something designed by a government committee.
It lacked ‘elegance’. It just seemed like C with some new features and different syntax.