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 hi

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.