Even back in the 1980s, ada had a "stodgy government bondage & discipline language" reputation. At least among the hacker set, who back then was all about bit-b

Even back in the 1980s, ada had a "stodgy government bondage & discipline language" reputation. At least among the hacker set, who back then was all about bit-banging the machine. I'd speculate that ada never received the big commercial push, like Sun Java received. There were no salesreps talking up ada on the golf-course to CIOs, and there weren't marketing people planting 'Ada is great' stories in the popular press. It always had "the pentagon made me use it" aura around it.