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The first part of this paper tries to characterise the notorious software crisis. Some of these characteristics are: Programming in the Large, Distributed Development, Configuration-Management, Object-Oriented Analysis, Design and Programming, Consistency of Interfaces, Life cycle and Maintainability, Reusability, Portability. The second part discusses some “prejudices” about Ada, such as military...
In this paper an approach is presented which supports the distribution of an Ada Program. The idea is to handle functional units, defined during system design, as distributable units during system integration. These partitions are marked by a specific pragma. A preprocessor is analyzing the source code and producing so called Virtual Nodes. As these virtual nodes are communicating via remote procedure...