Love the subtle approach into "Ada isn't popular because people are irrational and believe things that are totally off-base from reality." I've never hacked Ad

Love the subtle approach into "Ada isn't popular because people are irrational and believe things that are totally off-base from reality." I've never hacked Ada; it seems to have been totally eclipsed by languages like OCaml that give you a rich type system and a good degree of speed, but when I was learning about programming and languages it seemed insane that people didn't go for Ada. Was being able to be sloppy really that alluring? Did people just love segfaults? It makes a lot more sense to think of it in terms of irrational actors making choices for largely social/political reasons rather than calculated cost-benefit models. Basically everything makes more sense that way. HN just had a big thread about the death penalty that illustrated this perfectly. Some people just believe things because they want to. It's really, really hard to be accurate to reality. What could have been done to make Ada popular? How can we hack humans to prevent huge losses like this from occurring? What's the Ada of 2014?