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You didn't know that?
It was intended for safety- and operations-critical systems—major government contractors with billions of dollars to blow; development schedules years long. Like the aerospace companies that build the space shuttle. Ada's about minimizing bugs, despite the learning curve that's required to get used to its verbiage.
Speed of writing wasn't important twenty years ago, when most programmers had been trained on glass TTYs or worse, and naturally thought more slowly and carefully than we do today. It's also almost completely irrelevant when you are going to have to go back and verify the code afterward—a task for which slow, carefully thought-out code is better, anyway.
Ada was never meant to be a language for hackers or hacking, and appropriately they (we?) passed it by.