No, it’s not at all legal for the company to do this. Reply and remind them they have one calendar month to comply from the date of your original request, otherwise you will make a complaint to which ever information regulator is correct for the juridiction they’re operating in.

I’m a lawyer specialising in Data Privacy, reply here if you need more help on this one.

Also feel free to name the company.

Our justification was that Ratheon and Lockheed Martin held recruitment seminars and actively wanted this language to programme their avionics and guidance systems.

I learnt it but then did my industrial placement with the Red Cross working out ways to map land mine fields autonomously, because fuck the war machine.

I was not Dave

There’s also a programming language originally used for missile guidance called Ada, I had to learn it in university back in the dark ages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)

Please know I’ve never designed missile guidance systems.