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John McCabe

I don't think the F-35 is a particularly good advertisement for not using Ada in aviation - see craftofcoding.wordpress.com/2016/0... for a brief discussion. As for C, we'll it's already mentioned in the article above, but you can get closer to the hardware by learning assembler, which can be advantageous in safety critical systems where C has many restrictions placed on its use (see MISRA) and, as I understand it, object code is often analysed.