Meridian Ada 4.1
Volume Number: 7
Issue Number: 7
Column Tag: Ada Edition
Meridian Ada for the Mac 
By Paul Zarchan, Steve Nelson, Cambridge, MA
Background and Introduction
In 1975, in response to the perceived software crisis, the Department of
Defense published a set of requirements that should be met by any programming
language before it would be allowed for use. Since none of the languages at that time
met the requirements a competition was announced for the design of a modern