I don't think the active/passive synchronisation provided by Ada is the solution for using multiple cores efficiently but since I keep seeing people reinvent the same solution in Java there must be something useful about it. I found Ada quite easy to learn as it is remarkably consistent although that is the result of it being designed by just a couple people working closely together.

When I was in St. Petersburg I had better luck finding older people who spoke French or German as those languages had had more emphasis on them 40 years ago when English really wasn't taught at all.