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Re:F-35's biggest problems: software and bad relationships by darkestkhan on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @12:05AM (#4542007)
Someone did persuade them to shelve Ada... and then they get into this mess ;)

They are unlucky - there is no better alternative in writing this kind of software than Ada [well, there is SPARK but it is subset of Ada with annotations].

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Re:F-35's biggest problems: software and bad relationships by Cieplak on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @12:12AM (#4542024)
I just learned that Ada has higher performance benchmarks than C in many cases, for whatever that is worth.

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-lang...

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