Not to sound mean, but why would that matter? This entire affair is a failure of Justice, failure of Quality Assurance, and failure of Outsourcing Governance.

Not to sound mean, but why would that matter? This entire affair is a failure of Justice, failure of Quality Assurance, and failure of Outsourcing Governance. It could have happened with any language and any hardware. The problems were people problems. Side note: I'd hate to associate this affair with a particular software language, as it would just be media fodder, imagine headline: "Python Software Puts Proles in Prison"