• dave@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Long shot. I also learnt Ada. York’s justification was that “nobody would know it already, so nobody’s got an advantage” :)

    • _TheNardDog_@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Our justification was that Ratheon and Lockheed Martin held recruitment seminars and actively wanted this language to programme their avionics and guidance systems.

      I learnt it but then did my industrial placement with the Red Cross working out ways to map land mine fields autonomously, because fuck the war machine.