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Sure. None of this is news to anyone. Why not discuss why C++ was chosen in the first place?

• Jtsummers 11y ago
  Ability to hire people to fill the role of programmer.
  • tremon 11y ago
    That sounds like they were looking to scrape the bottom of the barrel. If programmer salary played a key role for such a critical piece of software, they have bigger problems.
    • PeCaN 11y ago
      From what I understand from this thread, it's worse than that: The problem wasn't programmer salary, it was that their budget was so big that they wanted to hire extra people and could not find enough Ada programmers. Yup. It got written in C++ because they wanted to spend more money and there are more experienced C++ developers than Ada developers.