--- layout: fc_discuss_archives title: Message 25 from Frama-C-discuss on November 2009 ---
> Apart from that, why do some many companies use C instead of Ada > for embedded programming? > I've read that even the aviation and military industry moved back to C. I have heard availability of tools and engineers cited as reasons for this shift. C has benefited from being used as a general purpose language for Unix and variants, which themselves have done well overall over the last couple of decades. Note that I am trying not to express any opinion on the fitness of one language or another for either general purpose programming or embedded programming. Pascal