Originally Posted by
peter we
Ada was a disaster for development, apparently (some discussion of it on f-16.net).
I suspect one of the big issues is finding people who know how to write Ada code. It was still pretty new when I was working with it, so programmers were eager to learn, but it never really seemed to take off outside its military/avionics niche. There are probably thousands of experienced C++ programmers available for every experienced Ada programmer.
I'd be interested to know how it ended up being a disaster since it seemed a sensible design for that kind of environment even if it was excessively restrictive for general software development. I'll go poke around on f-16.net.