Software doesn’t deteriorate with age: it is either correct or incorrect but faults can remain dormant for long periods. Ada is very much alive and well. I find it considerably amusing to read posts where the author assumes Ada to be a stale dinosaur - they seem to be quite far removed from reality. We use Ada for commercial projects achieving superior results in comparison with other languages - fewer bugs reach binary, easier to maintain code, certified and tested compilers, self documenting, and standards that read with legal precision... to name a few benefits.
How often have I heard, over the course of my so-called "career" as a "professional", this tired refrain?
There are bodies on the sea floor as we speak, that were put there by over-reliance on automation and plain, irreducible cheapness - the corporate mentality, the idea that ideas themselves are real, and that humans need to be removed from the loop. Fault tolerance - my a__.
228 humans have been permanently removed from the loop.