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My guess would be Ada. "Billions of dollars" => Government/DoD is involved.

• jonathanstrange 8y ago
  Highly unlikely. Ada has objected-oriented programming only since 1995 (in the form of tagged types). It's also extremely well-suited for very large teams and much harder to mess up projects in Ada than in many other languages.
• sevensor 8y ago
  If ever a forum that could draw a comment from somebody involved, it's this one. I was hoping this was a well known catastrophe somebody could fill me in on, but it sounds like the failure wasn't widely reported. I did enjoy this article on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_failed_and_overbudget_custom_software_projects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_failed_and_overbudget_... Unless a survivor of the project can chime in, I'm going indulge in a little idle speculation and agree that defense sounds like a good candidate for losing a billion dollars. Maybe not DoD itself, but a big contractor?