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True, I forgot about Ada. While ugly, Ada2012 is a very modern language with a lot of benefits compared to C, especially for embedded control systems programming.

Ada got a bad rap in the past and didn't spread very wide outside US military circles. But it is a very good language. For adoption today it would need some big backing though.



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