I wish the source for &quot;programmer availability&quot; hadn&#x27;t evaporated into the ether, because I&#x27;d love to see it.<p>I wonder if it meant &quot;The guys who know Ada are all furiously writing F-22 software&quot; -- parenthetical aside, the F-22 was in flight testing and development during the same years that the F-35 project was getting underway, so there would have been high demand for people experienced with developing mission critical flight software -- &quot;and therefore we have to go with the guys we can spare, who mostly know C++ or Java or something&quot;. Or did they mean &quot;No one coming out of school knows Ada anymore so let&#x27;s go with a more widely known language&quot;?