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> In fact this is an area that surprises me most of all!
> 
> Why don't univesities naturally prefer Ada?!?!?

I can offer this recent experience. I was hired by a University to teach 
Imperative and Object-Oriented Languages in 2002/2003. The curriculum 
included Ada and Smalltalk. I was thrilled. For 2003/2004 another person 
was put in charge. The new person's background did not include Ada or 
Smalltalk. So they just changed the curriculum. (To Java and C I think.) 
Can you see the pattern here? The future teachers are today's students. 
If they don't have a background in Ada, they won't teach it. This began 
one generation ago, so Ada is not taught today, and never will be.