ADA

So I've been noticing a lot of MoD/Aerospace jobs want people who know ADA, so I figure if I learn that language I may be able to fill a niche.

Discuss.

Ada. Yeesh. The natural evolution of Pascal, Modula-2 and the rest of that particular twisted family, into a world of really strong, explicit and static typing. Joined for an encore by all the best practices of bondage & discipline languages, with extra whips and chains to boot. And you _still_ get bugs from foolish programmers who confuse their Clockwise and Counterclockwise.

It's no coincidence that they speak of Ada procedures being "obeyed" rather than "executed" or "ran", like in other languages right?