A FOSS ban would have an especially negative impact on DoD software development. Development projects that use FOSS versions of the C and Ada programming languages would face costly translations to proprietary compilers and run time support packages. For the latter case of Internet-based languages such as Perl, recovery would be especially difficult since there are no immediately available commercial equivalents.
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