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John Barnes is a British computer scientist. He is best known for his role in developing and publicising the Ada programming language
Barnes studied mathematics at Cambridge University and later worked at chemicals giant ICI. Later Barnes was a leading member of the team that developed Ada.
He was an industrial fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford in the very late 70's or early 80's, almost certainly at the suggestion of Prof. C. A. R. Hoare