A lot of radar systems run on Ada. Its takes a little getting used to, but its a good language. Ada has a c binding package so it can call down to the OS libr

A lot of radar systems run on Ada. Its takes a little getting used to, but its a good language. Ada has a c binding package so it can call down to the OS libraries (networking, shared memory), which is great, but kills some of the niceness of living in an ada world. When I was trying out GO, I got a little ada flashback for some reason. The package system was good. I disliked ada strings though. When I left the industry, they were looking for alernative languages for new projects. GCC Ada compiler was being considered for maintaining older projects, seemed decent. http://libre.adacore.com/tools/gnat-gpl-edition/ http://libre.adacore.com/tools/gnat-gpl-edition/