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Beyond Ada95: The addition of persistence and its consequences

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Research into persistent programming languages and systems in recent years has shown that the technology is useful for developing complex software in many problem domains. This paper explores the issues and consequences of adding persistence to Ada95. The persistence extensions support transparent migration of objects between a program's address space and a persistent store in a way that preserves both type safety and encapsulation of abstract data types.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, 5005, SA, Australia

    Michael J. Oudshoorn

  2. Defence Science and Technology Organisation, PO Box 1500, 5108, Salisbury, SA, Australia

    Stephen C. Crawley

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Oudshoorn, M.J., Crawley, S.C. (1996). Beyond Ada95: The addition of persistence and its consequences. In: Strohmeier, A. (eds) Reliable Software Technologies — Ada-Europe '96. Ada-Europe 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1088. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0013501

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