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		darkestkhan on Sept 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: F-35's biggest problems: software and bad relation... 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].

Cieplak on Sept 19, 2012 [–]

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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