[mcguire]

"It's not the it's a specialized language for the military, but a language created to cleanup the DoD's software nightmare of the 70s, which is not unlike the software nightmares of today."

The nightmares aren't like each other, they are the same nightmare, just with the spooge scraped into slightly different piles.

Further, a language won't clean it up; that's going to take something seriously different. In fact, I suspect the spooge is irreducable past a certain point. I believe it is the nature of the problems.

That being said, Ada is a significant improvement over many others, in many cases for the reasons you describe.

"though I know they've been proven irrelevant by newer languages"

Uh, what?

[the_why_of_y]

> "though I know they've been proven irrelevant by newer languages"

> Uh, what?

Sarcasm, presumably; cf. Golang.

[jmilkbal]

T'was programming language satire at it's finest, in my opinion. :)