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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 language, complex, expensive, inefficient, old-fashioned, not object-oriented, not open to integrate COTS-products.
The third part presents some highlights of Ada95 which may contribute to overcome this crisis.
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Mangold, K. (1996). Ada95 — An approach to overcome the software crisis?. In: Toussaint, M. (eds) Ada in Europe. Ada-Europe 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1031. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0015479
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