Definition of "Ada"

Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child! / Ada! Sole daughter of my house and heart?

1818 George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the third: I

If anything, Ada is actually fairly easy to learn. The syntax is so explicit, that it is much more difficult to misunderstand what the code is doing than in C/C++.

2019, Andrew T. Shvets, Beginning Ada Programming: From Novice to Professional, Apress, page 11