Heh, I argued a version of the *wrong* side of this back in the day, shaped like "Yes, Ada helps you write million line projects, but they'd only be 100K lines of C++" (and of course even in the *short* term I won the argument :-)
Kevin Rigglecollaboration among increasingly large teams, meaning their size and complexity could scale much further, and so they wound up winning most of the market share in the end