Following an initial proposal developed at the 4th Ada Real Time Programming Workshop, Nemacolin Woodlands, 1989, and further meetings to pursue the ideas, a series of papers were published 123 describing and discussing possible Ada language extensions to support the development of distributable programs. The language consisting of Ada with these extensions has been called AdaPT, which may be thought of as Ada with partitions. After introducing AdaPT, this paper describes how the AdaPT constructs can be implemented in Ada 83, and then shows how they can be related to constructs proposed for Ada 9X. In general, the paper endorses the ideas of the 9X team, and suggests an elegant synthesis bringing together two apparently unrealted aspects of the language (type derivation and distribution) that can provide a basis for managing distribution.
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