Ada 95 adds many new and notable features to the Ada 83 standard. The additions include such aspects as object-oriented programming, hierarchical libraries, and protected objects. The enhancements to the language may have a profound impact on the way developers design software in Ada. Consequently, the way in which the new software designs are assessed needs to be addressed. Recent studies suggest traditional functionally-oriented metrics are not applicable to object-oriented software. As a result, new measures are being proposed that may be applicable to object-oriented design. Some of these metrics have been validated on small to medium sized projects written in C++ and Smalltalk. This paper demonstrates how to apply these metrics to Ada 95.
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