It is an absolute shame that Ada did not take its place as a dominant player early on. But people have difficulties reasoning about cost in computing. The verif

It is an absolute shame that Ada did not take its place as a dominant player early on. But people have difficulties reasoning about cost in computing. The verification cost for the toolchains pretty much kept places I worked at out of it. It is too bad that those costs were not treated as public goods and paid for out of tax money. I expect it would have been a good investment.