NDLI: Getting Ada into the mainstream in the 1990's

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Proving specifications of tasking systems using Ada/TL

Towards reuse of verified Ada software

A tailored design language: putting model based formal specification into practice

A prototype implementation of the SQL Ada module extension (SAME) method

Down in the details: lessons learned in interfacing Ada and SQL

A prototype implementation of the Ada binding to POSIX

Ada interface technology (panel)

A comparison of experiences with the maintenance of object-oriented systems: Ada vs. C++

Reverse engineering Ada into HOOD

Effects of Ada on design problems in a discrete event simulator

How much object-orientation in Ada? (panel)

Object oriented extensions to Ada: a dissenting opinion

Personal thoughts on Ada's object orientation

Combining object-oriented and functional paradigms in a design methodology for Ada

DAda—an Ada preprocessor for functional programming

A real-time Ada design method based on DoD-STD-2167A

A new approach to prototyping Ada-based hardware/software systems

A proposal for a recursive object-oriented life-cycle

Simulation and design in an object-oriented world: a methodology for large software systems

Fashioning conceptual constructs in Ada

Toward a real-time Ada design methodology

Ada education in universities (panel)

Reuse: the two concurrent life cycles paradigm

Software reuse: mining, refining, and designing

Process and products for software reuse in Ada

On the accuracy of predicting rate monotonic scheduling performance

Benchmarking for deadline-driven computing

The performance of a prototype coprocessor for Ada tasking

The Ada tasking model is adequate for real-time embedded applications (panel)

Ada interrupt handlers for hard real-time systems

Ada and the Navy next generation computer resources operating system interface standard

Application of Ada on a distributed missile control system

Design of a communication system for a real-time C2 simulator

Implementing a distributed fault-tolerant embedded system in Ada

Ada run-time system contention measurement

Practical use of Ada in a heterogeneous multi-processor computer

Ada as a parallel language for high performance computers: experience and results

Allocation strategies for Ada tasks on hypercube multi-processors

Distributed deadlock detection in Ada run-time environments

Task-wait-for graphs and their application to handling tasking deadlocks

SPARK—an annotated Ada subset for safety-critical programming

A systematic approach for implementing fault tolerant software designs in Ada

Building real-time imprecise computations in Ada

An Ada 9X town meeting: getting Ada into the mainstream in the 1990s (panel)

Getting Ada into the mainstream

Getting Ada into the mainstream in the 1990's

Sociological concerns about Ada in the 1990s

Ideas for kick-starting the Ada market of the 1990s

The marriage of Ada and Joe College

A portable communication facility for distributed client/server architectures

Ada implementation of a real-time communications system

An experiment with Graphite

ABET—a standard for Ada in a test environment

SoftCost-Ada: user experiences and lessons learned at the age of three

Ada: experience it again for the first time

Ada impacts on a second generation project

Why COBOL programmers refuse Ada

Software engineering as a radical novelty: the Air Force Ada experience

Managing Ada development risk in a non-Ada-based workstation environment

Status of Ada then and now (panel)

Language design and standardization

Ada-oriented software engineering environments

People, events, and technology insertion in the Ada program

Ada compiler evaluation

Selecting an Ada contractor—one way that worked

Future approaches to software procurement

Pragmatic quality metrics for evolutionary software development models

Barriers to Ada adoption: have they changed? (panel)

Current and future trends in compiler validation and evaluation (invited presentation)

Toward the efficient implementation of expert systems in Ada

Ada development system technical and performance requirements (with rationale)

Compiler evaluation within DoD (panel)

Ada awareness issues: in government, Congress, and industry (panel)

Ada optimizations—why the user should care (panel)

Ada optimizations—an embedded systems view

Optimisation and performance issues: things the user can do to exploit VAX Ada

Ada optimizations—why should a user care?

Some effects of coding styles on optimizations

Track 4 background and purpose

Integrating Ada with existing systems: the ATACC experience

Weirton Steel—Ada in process control

AFATDS—from concept evaluation to full scale development

Bofors 9LV Mk3 system—developing for maximum software reuse

LINX—Ada in an open systems architecture

Command center processing and display system replacement—CCPDS-R

STANFINS: one year later

DIGITAC III digital flight control system

Reuters: experience with D2000 and Globex

Getting Ada into the mainstream in the 1990's

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Fussichen, Kenneth
Abstract	Ada offers a great deal to the MIS community. There are a number of language features that provide attractive tools to the programmer. Ada's support for Object Orientation is far superior to that currently afforded by IBM mainframe languages such as COBOL and PL/1. This translates into more maintainable code, which is the key to MIS Ada acceptance.Unfortunately, Ada introduces problems that do not currently exist in MIS. Decimal arithmetic and string manipulation adequate to support reporting are inherently non-existent. I/O support is inadequate as are DBMS bindings. Conversions are forced on non-ASCII hosts. The compiler has the option of reordering fields within records, rendering non-Ada utilities useless. There is an inexcusable lack of understanding of the targeted market.Virtually all of the known weaknesses of Ada were to be solvable by standard packages to be marketed by compiler vendors as a result of “market forces”. This is how compiler vendors would differentiate their products. This strategy has failed and no new strategy has replaced or augmented it.The Ada 9X Language Revision Process does offer some hope. Native character sets, decimal arithmetic and what is loosely called “secondary standards” offer the potential to make MIS Ada acceptable without burdening other disciplines.Ada 9X doesn't have all the answers. Bindings are still a significant problem. This is especially true if there is interest in converting any of the 80 billion lines of COBOL code to Ada. While the Ada-SQL binding will solve the Ada-SQL problem, the binding of the SQL specification to the proprietary DBMS is still left to those mysterious “market forces”.In my opinion, the Ada community needs MIS support to impact “market forces”. The Ada community has not demonstrated an understanding of MIS requirements and therefore cannot market to the MIS community. There is no MIS inclination to even acknowledge Ada, therefore any change to the status quo must come from the Ada community. The Ada 9X Language Revision Team has started to address this problem.There may be an MIS Ada awareness in the 1990's, but bringing Ada into the MIS mainstream is more than a decade away.
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0897914090
DOI	10.1145/255471.255572
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1990-12-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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