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JD-EE
For commercial stuff Ada doesn't work very well because commercial software is seldom thoroughly defined and then developed without massive changes in direction.
It's a long time ago that I worked on military stuff, but "thoroughly defined" and "developed without massive changes in direction." are not really characterisitcs I'd associate with it ! "Sufficiently ill-defined that the contractor can absolutely guarnatee to claw back overruns (and under-quotes) in change control," and "subject to random changes in direction so often that by the time you go live no one can remember what the original threat was" would be more like it. Maybe I'm too cynical though.
Also, I think those that think Ada has dropped out of use just don't appreciate mil-spec project timescales. I've used Coral 66 (predates Ada by a lot of years) and the last time I was offered work in it (by idiots who just keyword search CVs without reading them) was not many years ago - I suspect it is still in use today...