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Kent Paul Dolan wrote:
> The DoD had, and has to this day, a situation where
 > battlefield computers programmed in different languages
 > couldn't talk to one another.

Good thing all those devices programmed in C have no problem
talking with each other. Every night, I hear my stove chatting
with my washing machine.

Soldiers are replacing army-issue gadgets with commercial
ones because all of the different military devices use
incompatible batteries, increasing the weight of spares
that have to be carried.

Programming language choice is so far from a factor in
interoperability and communications that your comments
are laughable.