Here's a very telling quote regarding the choice of programming language from a software team manager from the JSF project: "Ada was seen as the technically su

Here's a very telling quote regarding the choice of programming language from a software team manager from the JSF project: "Ada was seen as the technically superior and more robust language, but concern over the ability to successfully staff the software engineers required to develop the massive amounts of safety critical software caused the F-35 team to carefully look and finally to choose C and C++ for the implementation of safety critical software." - John H. Robb, Senior Manager of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Air Vehicle Software team at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Fort Worth[1] [1]https://web.archive.org/web/20111219004314/http://journal.thedacs.com:80/issue/53/158 https://web.archive.org/web/20111219004314/http://journal.th...