Taft, the great-grandson of President William Howard Taft, graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1975 with a bachelor's degree in chemistry. GCN senior editor Florence Olsen interviewed Taft by telephone from his Massachusetts office. Ada is good at detecting errors in programs early in the programming lifecycle. You submit your code to an Ada compiler, and it will inform you right away that you made mistakes that a lot of languages would let go right by. For some people, that's the bottom line.
Errors cost money.
The sooner you catch them, the less they cost. If the compiler misses an error, Ada has another line of checking when you run the program. That gives them a sense of productivity and pride in the quality of their work. I hope so, but I wouldn't say actions recently have backed that up. The problem is, DOD is a huge organization that has a three-year total turnover at certain levels.