I wish the source for "programmer availability" hadn't evaporated into the ether, because I'd love to see it. I wonder if it meant "The guys who know Ada are a

I wish the source for "programmer availability" hadn't evaporated into the ether, because I'd love to see it. I wonder if it meant "The guys who know Ada are all furiously writing F-22 software" -- parenthetical aside, the F-22 was in flight testing and development during the same years that the F-35 project was getting underway, so there would have been high demand for people experienced with developing mission critical flight software -- "and therefore we have to go with the guys we can spare, who mostly know C++ or Java or something". Or did they mean "No one coming out of school knows Ada anymore so let's go with a more widely known language"?