"Nuclear power plant" is a bad example. Actually, a lot of control software is written in the worst language in the whole wide world, http://en.wikipedia.org/w

"Nuclear power plant" is a bad example. Actually, a lot of control software is written in the worst language in the whole wide world, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladder_logic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladder_logic ...the reason Java [unqualified] can't be used is because of the indeterministic nature of garbage collection...thus Java RTS.