I can sympathize with resistance to Ada in a sense: Big "enterprise-y" languages can feel unwieldy and cumbersome if you're used to bit-twiddling and struct-packing in something like C.
But as the recent Boeing debacle has shown, the avionics domain is in need of greater sophistication and reliability. What it doesn't need is more hackery, as satisfying as that may be for the hardware hackers.
Though Ada isn't a massive household name, I think its designers were vindicated by history.
But as the recent Boeing debacle has shown, the avionics domain is in need of greater sophistication and reliability. What it doesn't need is more hackery, as satisfying as that may be for the hardware hackers.
Though Ada isn't a massive household name, I think its designers were vindicated by history.