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> I've been using Chicken for five years to fulfill contracts for military, biotech and publishing clients.

Do the contracts specify any language requirements, considering the organization may eventually maintain the old themselves.

And, in your experience, do any military projects still require Ada? :)



> Do the contracts specify any language requirements . . .

They did; and, in some cases, I risked losing my job by writing in Scheme. I eventually prevailed, however; and, in one case, converted a Python shop.

> And, in your experience, do any military projects still require Ada?

Java more than Ada, in my experience; but I wonder if Ada's niche isn't aviation and other real-time systems.




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