As someone who deals with both Ada and C on a regular basis, I think there was a bit of thought put into where they deviated from C-like syntax. https://learn.

As someone who deals with both Ada and C on a regular basis, I think there was a bit of thought put into where they deviated from C-like syntax. https://learn.adacore.com/pdf_books/courses/Ada_For_The_Embedded_C_Developer.pdf https://learn.adacore.com/pdf_books/courses/Ada_For_The_Embe... does a good job of highlighting some of the differences between Ada and C syntax and the reasons for them.