Its a real shame that Ada has been so ignored. Its a highly fault tolerant language, yet embedded systems programmers still prefer to use C and C++, highly dangerous languages that put safety entirely in the hands of the programmer. If people would stop accepting mediocre languages like VB, Java, Delphi, etc and try Ada they would find a huge increase in productivity and program correctness.
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That's because they're the absolute minority of visible embedded programmers. C is fairly high, and even Lua probably beats Sepples. Unless you want to talk deployment, in which case I believe every recent handheld Pokemon game is written in Sepples.
Ada is awesome, too good for its own good. Shitty programmers want instant satisfaction (only to later spend 90% of the time hunting bugs). In Ada, if it compiles, there's a very high chance it'll work correctly. Moreover it is a fully compiled language, if you disable range and overflow checking it can run at the speed of light (heck, I think gcc will let you use inline asm). I used it very little but it left a good impression on me.